Job 5:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קְֽרָא־נָ֭א הֲיֵ֣שׁ עוֹנֶ֑ךָּ וְאֶל־מִ֖י מִקְּדֹשִׁ֣ים תִּפְנֶֽה׃

Transliteration

qerā-nā is yēš ʿōnekā wə-to-whom from-qedōšîm tifneh

Grammar Details

• *qerā-nā*: imperative, masculine singular with particle of entreaty - call now/please
• *yēš*: interrogative particle with existential particle - is there?
• *ʿōnekā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your answerer/respondent
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *qedōšîm*: adjective used as noun, masculine plural - holy ones/saints
• *tifneh*: imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will turn/appeal

Word Meanings

• *qerā-nā*: call now/please/I pray thee
• *yēš*: there is/exists
• *ʿōnekā*: one who answers you/your respondent
• *qedōšîm*: holy ones/saints/angels
• *tifneh*: turn/appeal/look to

Referenced Verses

• Job 15:15 : 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
• Ps 16:3 : 3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
• Ps 106:16 : 16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
• Isa 41:1 : 1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
• Isa 41:21-23 : 21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
• Eph 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
• Heb 12:1 : 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
• Deut 33:2-3 : 2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. 3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
• Job 4:18 : 18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
• Job 15:8-9 : 8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? 9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us? 10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.