Job 5:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁ֤ר קְצִיר֨וֹ ׀ רָ֘עֵ֤ב יֹאכֵ֗ל וְאֶֽל־מִצִנִּ֥ים יִקָּחֵ֑הוּ וְשָׁאַ֖ף צַמִּ֣ים חֵילָֽם׃

Transliteration

ʾăšer qeṣîrō rāʿēb yōʾḵēl wə-to-miṣinnîm yiqqāḥēhû wə-šāʾaf ṣammîm ḥêlām

Grammar Details

• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - whose/which
• *qeṣîrō*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his harvest
• *rāʿēb*: adjective, masculine singular - hungry one
• *yōʾḵēl*: imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will eat
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *miṣinnîm*: noun, masculine plural - thorns/thorn hedges
• *yiqqāḥēhû*: imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - he will take it
• *šāʾaf*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he swallowed up/panted after
• *ṣammîm*: adjective, masculine plural - thirsty ones
• *ḥêlām*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their wealth/substance

Word Meanings

• *qeṣîrō*: his harvest/crop
• *rāʿēb*: hungry one/hungry person
• *miṣinnîm*: thorns/thorn hedges/snares
• *yiqqāḥēhû*: takes it/will take it/seizes it
• *šāʾaf*: swallows up/pants after/eagerly desires
• *ṣammîm*: thirsty ones/those who thirst
• *ḥêlām*: their wealth/substance/possessions

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:33 : 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
• Deut 28:51 : 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
• Judg 6:3-6 : 3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; 4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it. 6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
• Judg 6:11 : 11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
• 2 Chr 33:11 : 11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
• Job 1:15 : 15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
• Job 1:17 : 17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
• Job 2:3 : 3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
• Job 12:6 : 6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
• Job 18:8-9 : 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. 9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
• Job 20:15 : 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
• Isa 62:8 : 8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
• Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
• Jer 51:44 : 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
• Lam 2:5 : 5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
• Lam 2:16 : 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
• Hos 8:7 : 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.