Job 33:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֵן־אֲנִ֣י כְפִ֣יךָ לָאֵ֑ל מֵ֝חֹ֗מֶר קֹרַ֥צְתִּי גַם־אָֽנִי׃

Transliteration

hēn-ʾănî kəpîkā lāʾēl mēḥōmer qōraṣtî gam-ʾānî

Grammar Details

• *hēn*: demonstrative particle - behold/look
• *ʾănî*: personal pronoun, 1st person singular - I
• *kəpîkā*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - like your mouth/as your speech
• *lāʾēl*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - to/for God
• *mēḥōmer*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - from clay
• *qōraṣtî*: qal perfect, 1st person singular passive - I was pinched off/formed
• *gam*: particle - also/too
• *ʾānî*: personal pronoun, 1st person singular - I

Word Meanings

• *hēn*: behold/look/indeed
• *kəpîkā*: like your mouth/as your speech/according to your words
• *lāʾēl*: to God/for God/before God
• *mēḥōmer*: from clay/from dust/from mud
• *qōraṣtî*: I was pinched off/I was formed/I was shaped
• *gam*: also/too/likewise

Referenced Verses

• Job 4:19 : 19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
• Job 9:32-35 : 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. 33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. 34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: 35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
• Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
• Job 13:3 : 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
• Job 13:12 : 12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
• Job 20:22 : 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
• Job 23:3-4 : 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
• Job 31:35 : 35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
• 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
• 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
• Gen 2:7 : 7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• 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.
• Gen 30:2 : 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
• Exod 4:16 : 16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.