Job 30:23

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־יָ֭דַעְתִּי מָ֣וֶת תְּשִׁיבֵ֑נִי וּבֵ֖ית מוֹעֵ֣ד לְכָל־חָֽי

Transliteration

For I yāḏaʿtî māweṯ You təšîḇēnî, and bêṯ môʿēḏ for all ḥāy

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *yāḏaʿtî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I know
• *māweṯ*: noun, masculine singular - death
• *təšîḇēnî*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - you will bring me back/return me
• *û-ḇêṯ*: conjunction with noun, masculine singular construct - and house of
• *môʿēḏ*: noun, masculine singular - appointed place/meeting
• *lə-ḵāl-ḥāy*: preposition with noun, masculine singular construct with adjective - for all living

Word Meanings

• *yāḏaʿtî*: I know/I am aware
• *māweṯ*: death/dying
• *təšîḇēnî*: bring me back/return me/restore me
• *bêṯ*: house/place/abode
• *môʿēḏ*: appointed place/meeting place/assembly
• *ḥāy*: living/alive

Referenced Verses

• Gen 3:19 : 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• Eccl 12:5-7 : 5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: 6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
• 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
• Job 3:19 : 19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
• Job 9:22 : 22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
• Job 10:8 : 8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
• Job 14:5 : 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
• Job 21:33 : 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
• Eccl 8:8 : 8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
• Eccl 9:5 : 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.