Job 9:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִם־צָ֭דַקְתִּי לֹ֣א אֶעֱנֶ֑ה לִ֝מְשֹׁפְטִ֗י אֶתְחַנָּֽן׃

Transliteration

ʾăšer ʾim-ṣādaqtî lōʾ ʾeʿĕneh li-mšōpṭî ʾetḥannān

Grammar Details

• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/which/that
• *ʾim-ṣādaqtî*: conditional particle + qal perfect 1st person singular - though I am righteous
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ʾeʿĕneh*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will answer
• *li-mšōpṭî*: preposition + qal participle masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - to my judge
• *ʾetḥannān*: hithpael imperfect 1st person singular - I must plead for mercy

Word Meanings

• *ʾim-ṣādaqtî*: to be righteous, be just, be in the right
• *ʾeʿĕneh*: to answer, respond, reply
• *mšōpṭî*: judge, one who judges me
• *ʾetḥannān*: to seek favor, implore, plead for mercy

Referenced Verses

• Job 10:15 : 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
• Job 8:5 : 5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
• Job 10:2 : 2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
• 1 Kgs 8:38-39 : 38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: 39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest;(for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
• 2 Chr 33:13 : 13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
• Job 5:8 : 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
• Job 22:27 : 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
• Job 23:7 : 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
• Job 34:31-32 : 31 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: 32 That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
• Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Dan 9:3 : 3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
• Dan 9:18 : 18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
• 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
• 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: