Job 11:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

Life shall be clearer than the noonday; Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּֽ֭מִצָּהֳרַיִם יָק֣וּם חָ֑לֶד תָּ֝עֻ֗פָה כַּבֹּ֥קֶר תִּהְיֶֽה׃

Transliteration

u-mitsahorayim yaqum ḥaled taʿupah ka-bōqer tihyeh

Grammar Details

• *u-mitsahorayim*: conjunction + preposition + noun masculine dual - and brighter than noonday
• *yaqum*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - it will arise
• *ḥaled*: noun masculine singular - lifetime/age/world
• *taʿupah*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will fly/soar
• *ka-bōqer*: preposition + noun masculine singular - like the morning
• *tihyeh*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will be

Word Meanings

• *tsahorayim*: noonday/midday
• *yaqum*: arise/stand/be established
• *ḥaled*: lifetime/age/duration/world/transience
• *taʿupah*: fly/soar/be darkened (meaning uncertain)
• *bōqer*: morning/daybreak/dawn
• *tihyeh*: be/become/exist

Referenced Verses

• Ps 37:6 : 6 He will make your righteousness go forth as the light, And your justice as the noon day sun.
• Isa 58:8-9 : 8 Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall by your rearward. 9 Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly; 10 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;
• Hos 6:3 : 3 Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, Like the spring rain that waters the earth."
• Mic 7:8-9 : 8 Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me. 9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, Because I have sinned against him, Until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.
• Zech 14:6-7 : 6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost. 7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.
• Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
• Luke 2:26-32 : 26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.{"Christ" (Greek) and "Messiah" (Hebrew) both mean "Anointed One"} 27 He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law, 28 then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said, 29 "Now you are releasing your servant, Master, According to your word, in peace; 30 For my eyes have seen your salvation, 31 Which you have prepared before the face of all peoples; 32 A light for revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of your people Israel."
• Ps 92:14 : 14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
• Ps 112:4 : 4 Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, Gracious, merciful, and righteous.
• Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, That shines more and more until the perfect day.
• 1 Chr 29:10 : 10 Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
• Job 42:11-17 : 11 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money,{Literally, kesitah, a unit of money, probably silver} and everyone a ring of gold. 12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch. 15 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations. 17 So Job died, being old and full of days.