Job 9:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֭ף כִּֽי־אָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑נּוּ אֶבְחֲרָ֖ה דְבָרַ֣י עִמּוֹ׃

Transliteration

ʾap kî-ʾānōkî ʾeʿĕnennû ʾebḥărâ dəbāray ʿimmô

Grammar Details

*ʾap*: conjunction/adverb - indeed/even/also
*kî-ʾānōkî*: conjunction + 1st person singular independent pronoun - that I
*ʾeʿĕnennû*: qal imperfect 1st person singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - I will answer him
*ʾebḥărâ*: qal imperfect 1st person singular cohortative - let me choose
*dəbāray*: masculine plural noun + 1st person singular suffix - my words
*ʿimmô*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - with him

Word Meanings

*ʾap*: indeed, even, also, how much less/more
*kî*: that, because, when
*ʾānōkî*: I, myself
*ʾeʿĕnennû*: to answer, respond, reply
*ʾebḥărâ*: to choose, select, elect
*dəbāray*: words, sayings, matters

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Job 4:19 : 19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 9:3 : 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Job 11:4-5 : 4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. 5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
Job 23:4 : 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 23:7 : 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Job 25:6 : 6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Job 33:5 : 5 If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

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