Job 31:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּמָ֣ה אֶֽ֭עֱשֶׂה כִּֽי־יָק֣וּם אֵ֑ל וְכִֽי־יִ֝פְקֹ֗ד מָ֣ה אֲשִׁיבֶֽנּוּ׃

Transliteration

And-mâ ʾeʿĕśeh when-yāqûm ʾēl and-when-yipqōd mâ ʾăšîḇennû

Grammar Details

• *mâ*: interrogative pronoun - what
• *ʾeʿĕśeh*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will do
• *yāqûm*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he rises
• *ʾēl*: noun, masculine singular - God
• *yipqōd*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he visits/examines
• *ʾăšîḇennû*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - I will answer him

Word Meanings

• *ʾeʿĕśeh*: I will do/I would do/I could do
• *yāqûm*: rises/stands up/takes action
• *ʾēl*: God/deity
• *yipqōd*: visits/inspects/examines
• *ʾăšîḇennû*: I will answer him/I would respond to him

Referenced Verses

• Job 9:32 : 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
• Job 10:2 : 2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
• Ps 7:6 : 6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
• Ps 9:12 : 12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
• Ps 9:19 : 19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
• Ps 10:12-15 : 12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
• Ps 44:21 : 21 Shall not God search this out{H8799)}? for he knoweth{H8802)} the secrets of the heart.
• Ps 76:9 : 9 When God arose{H8800)} to judgment, to save{H8687)} all the meek of the earth. Selah.
• Ps 143:2 : 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
• Isa 10:3 : 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
• Hos 9:7 : 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
• Mic 7:4 : 4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
• Zech 2:13 : 13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
• Mark 7:2 : 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
• Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.