Job 5:23

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י עִם־אַבְנֵ֣י הַשָּׂדֶ֣ה בְרִיתֶ֑ךָ וְחַיַּ֥ת הַ֝שָּׂדֶ֗ה הָשְׁלְמָה־לָֽךְ׃

Transliteration

kî with-ʾabnê the-śādeh bərîteḵā wə-ḥayyat the-śādeh hāšləmāh-to-ḵā

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ʾabnê*: noun, feminine plural construct - stones of
• *śādeh*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the field
• *bərîteḵā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your covenant
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *ḥayyat*: noun, feminine singular construct - beast of
• *hāšləmāh*: Hophal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - she has been made peaceful

Word Meanings

• *ʾabnê*: stones of
• *śādeh*: field/open country
• *bərîteḵā*: your covenant/agreement/alliance
• *ḥayyat*: beast/animal/living creature of
• *hāšləmāh*: has been made peaceful/at peace with

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:6 : 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
• Ps 91:12-13 : 12 They shall bear thee up{H8799)} in their hands, lest thou dash{H8799)} thy foot against a stone. 13 Thou shalt tread{H8799)} upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet{H8799)}.
• Isa 11:6-9 : 6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
• Ezek 14:15-16 : 15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: 16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
• Dan 6:22 : 22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
• Hos 2:18 : 18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
• Rom 8:38-39 : 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.