Job 34:22

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֵֽין־חֹ֭שֶׁךְ וְאֵ֣ין צַלְמָ֑וֶת לְהִסָּ֥תֶר שָׁ֝֗ם פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃

Transliteration

ʾên-ḥōšek wə-ʾên ṣalmāwet ləhissāter šām pōʿălê ʾāwen

Grammar Details

• *ʾên*: particle of negation - there is no
• *ḥōšek*: masculine singular noun - darkness
• *wə-ʾên*: waw conjunction + particle of negation - and there is no
• *ṣalmāwet*: masculine singular noun - deep shadow/death shadow
• *ləhissāter*: preposition + Niphal infinitive construct - to hide themselves
• *šām*: adverb - there
• *pōʿălê*: masculine plural construct noun - workers of
• *ʾāwen*: masculine singular noun - iniquity

Word Meanings

• *ʾên*: there is no/none/not existing
• *ḥōšek*: darkness/obscurity/gloom
• *ṣalmāwet*: deep shadow/death shadow/deepest darkness
• *ləhissāter*: to hide themselves/to conceal themselves/to be hidden
• *pōʿălê ʾāwen*: workers of iniquity/evildoers/those who do wickedness

Referenced Verses

• Amos 9:2-3 : 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
• Ps 139:11-12 : 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
• Prov 10:29 : 29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
• Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
• Heb 4:13 : 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
• Rev 6:15-16 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
• Matt 7:23 : 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
• Luke 13:27 : 27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
• 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
• Job 24:17 : 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
• Job 31:3 : 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
• Ps 5:5 : 5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
• Isa 9:2 : 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
• Isa 29:15 : 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
• Jer 23:24 : 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.