Job 36:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַ֤ף הֲסִיתְךָ֨ ׀ מִפִּי־צָ֗ר רַ֭חַב לֹא־מוּצָ֣ק תַּחְתֶּ֑יהָ וְנַ֥חַת שֻׁ֝לְחָנְךָ֗ מָ֣לֵא דָֽשֶׁן׃

Transliteration

wə-ʾap̄ hăsîtəkā mippî-ṣār raḥab lōʾ-mûṣāq taḥtehā wə-naḥat šulḥānəkā mālēʾ dāšen

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʾap̄*: conjunction + adverb - and also/even
• *hăsîtəkā*: Hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - he has enticed you
• *mippî-ṣār*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct + adjective - from mouth of distress
• *raḥab*: noun, masculine singular - breadth/wide place
• *lōʾ-mûṣāq*: negative particle + Hophal participle, masculine singular - not constraint/narrowness
• *taḥtehā*: preposition with 3rd feminine singular suffix - under it
• *wə-naḥat*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular - and what rests
• *šulḥānəkā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your table
• *mālēʾ*: adjective, masculine singular - full of
• *dāšen*: noun, masculine singular - fatness/richness

Word Meanings

• *hăsît*: enticed/lured/moved
• *pî-ṣār*: mouth of distress/narrow place/straits
• *raḥab*: breadth/wide place/spaciousness
• *mûṣāq*: constraint/narrowness/distress
• *naḥat*: what rests/settles/is set
• *šulḥān*: table/meal
• *dāšen*: fatness/richness/abundance

Referenced Verses

• Ps 23:5 : 5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
• Ps 118:5 : 5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
• Ps 18:19 : 19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
• Ps 31:8 : 8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
• Ps 36:8 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink{H8686)} of the river of thy pleasures.
• Ps 40:1-3 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)}, A Psalm of David. I waited{H8765)} patiently{H8763)} for the LORD; and he inclined{H8799)} unto me, and heard{H8799)} my cry. 2 He brought me up{H8686)} also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set{H8686)} my feet upon a rock, and established{H8790)} my goings. 3 And he hath put{H8799)} a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see{H8799)} it, and fear{H8799)}, and shall trust{H8799)} in the LORD.
• Ps 63:5 : 5 My soul shall be satisfied{H8799)} as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise{H8762)} thee with joyful lips:
• Isa 25:6 : 6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
• Isa 55:2 : 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
• Hos 2:14 : 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
• Job 19:8 : 8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
• Job 42:10-17 : 10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. 12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. 15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. 16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. 17 So Job died, being old and full of days.