Job 27:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly flee out of His hand.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיַשְׁלֵ֣ךְ עָ֭לָיו וְלֹ֣א יַחְמֹ֑ל מִ֝יָּד֗וֹ בָּר֥וֹחַ יִבְרָֽח׃

Transliteration

wə-yašlēḵ ʿālāyw wə-lōʾ yaḥmōl miyyāḏô bārôaḥ yiḇrāḥ

Grammar Details

• *wə-yašlēḵ*: conjunction + Hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he hurls
• *ʿālāyw*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - at him
• *wə-lōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *yaḥmōl*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he spares
• *miyyāḏô*: preposition + noun feminine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - from his hand
• *bārôaḥ*: Qal infinitive absolute - fleeing
• *yiḇrāḥ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he flees

Word Meanings

• *šālaḵ*: throw/cast/hurl
• *ḥāmal*: spare/have compassion
• *yāḏ*: hand/power
• *bāraḥ*: flee/run away

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  It hurls itself against him without mercy; he flees desperately from its power.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  It ru?sheth in vpon him, and spareth him not, he maye not escape from the power therof.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And God shal cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  God shal cast vpon him, and not spare, though he woulde fayne flee out of his hande.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For it hurls at him, and does not spare, As he flees away from his hand.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For `God' shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 9:14 : 14 For at this time I will send all my plagues upon your heart, upon your servants, and upon your people; that you may know there is none like me in all the earth.
• Exod 14:25-28 : 25 And took off their chariot wheels, so that they drove them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians. 26 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; not so much as one of them remained.
• Deut 29:20 : 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
• Deut 32:23 : 23 I will heap disasters upon them; I will use up my arrows against them.
• Josh 10:11 : 11 And it happened, as they fled from Israel and were on the descent to Beth Horon, that the LORD cast great stones from heaven upon them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword.
• Judg 4:17-21 : 17 However, Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. 18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; do not fear. And when he had turned in to her into the tent, she covered him with a blanket. 19 And he said to her, Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. So she opened a jug of milk and gave him a drink, and covered him. 20 Then he said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and asks you, Is there a man here? you shall say, No. 21 Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent peg and a hammer in her hand, went softly to him, and drove the peg into his temples, and it went down into the ground, for he was fast asleep and exhausted. So he died.
• Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
• Job 20:24 : 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of bronze shall strike him through.
• Isa 10:3 : 3 And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation that shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?
• Jer 13:14 : 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says the LORD: I will have no pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
• Ezek 5:11 : 11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have any pity.
• Ezek 9:5-6 : 5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city and strike: let not your eye spare, neither have any pity: 6 Utterly slay old and young, both maidens, and little children, and women: but do not come near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began with the elders who were before the house.
• Ezek 24:14 : 14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your deeds, they shall judge you, says the Lord GOD.
• Amos 2:14 : 14 Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not reinforce his strength, neither shall the mighty save himself:
• Amos 9:1-3 : 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said, Strike the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake; and cut them in the head, all of them. I will slay the last of them with the sword; he who flees from them shall not flee away, and he who escapes of them shall not be delivered. 2 Though they dig into hell, from there my hand will take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. 3 And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
• Rom 8:32 : 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
• 2 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5 And did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;