Job 35:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּ֗ה כִּי־אַ֭יִן פָּקַ֣ד אַפּ֑וֹ וְלֹֽא־יָדַ֖ע בַּפַּ֣שׁ מְאֹֽד׃

Transliteration

wə-ʿattāh kî-ʾayin pāqad ʾappô wə-lōʾ-yādaʿ bappaš məʾōd

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʿattāh*: conjunction + adverb - and now
• *kî-ʾayin*: conjunction + adverb of negation - because there is nothing
• *pāqad*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he has visited/punished
• *ʾappô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his anger
• *wə-lōʾ-yādaʿ*: conjunction + negative particle + perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he does not know
• *bappaš*: preposition + definite article + noun - in the transgression/folly
• *məʾōd*: adverb - greatly/exceedingly

Word Meanings

• *ʿattāh*: now/at this time
• *ʾayin*: there is not/nothing/nonexistence
• *pāqad*: to visit/punish/attend to
• *ʾappô*: his anger/wrath/nose
• *yādaʿ*: to know/perceive/recognize
• *paš*: transgression/folly/arrogance
• *məʾōd*: greatly/exceedingly/very much

Referenced Verses

• Ps 89:32 : 32 Then will I visit{H8804)} their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
• Hos 11:8-9 : 8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
• Luke 1:20 : 20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
• Heb 12:11-12 : 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
• Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Num 20:12 : 12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
• Job 4:5 : 5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
• Job 9:14 : 14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
• Job 13:15 : 15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
• Job 30:15-31 : 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. 21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. 22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. 23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. 24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. 25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? 26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. 27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. 28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. 29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. 31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
• Ps 88:11-16 : 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared{H8792)} in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known{H8735)} in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But unto thee have I cried{H8765)}, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent{H8762)} thee. 14 LORD, why castest thou off{H8799)} my soul? why hidest{H8686)} thou thy face from me? 15 I am afflicted and ready to die{H8802)} from my youth up: while I suffer{H8804)} thy terrors I am distracted{H8799)}. 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over{H8804)} me; thy terrors have cut me off{H8768)}.