Job 24:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִתֶּן־ל֣וֹ לָ֭בֶטַח וְיִשָּׁעֵ֑ן וְ֝עֵינֵ֗יהוּ עַל־דַּרְכֵיהֶֽם

Transliteration

Yitten-lô lābeṭaḥ wəyiššāʿēn wəʿênêhû ʿal-darkêhem

Grammar Details

• *Yitten-lô*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular + preposition *lə* + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - 'he gives to him'
• *lābeṭaḥ*: preposition *lə* + noun masculine singular - 'for security'
• *wəyiššāʿēn*: conjunction *wə* + niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'and he relies'
• *wəʿênêhû*: conjunction *wə* + noun feminine dual construct + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - 'and his eyes'
• *ʿal-darkêhem*: preposition *ʿal* + noun feminine plural construct + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'upon their ways'

Word Meanings

• *Yitten-lô*: gives to him/grants him
• *lābeṭaḥ*: for security/in safety
• *wəyiššāʿēn*: and he relies/leans/depends
• *wəʿênêhû*: and his eyes/his sight/his attention
• *ʿal-darkêhem*: upon their ways/over their paths

Referenced Verses

• Prov 15:3 : 3 Yahweh's eyes are everywhere, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.
• Rev 2:23 : 23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
• Job 11:11 : 11 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.
• Job 12:6 : 6 The tents of robbers prosper, Those who provoke God are secure; Who carry their God in their hands.
• Ps 10:13-14 : 13 Why does the wicked person condemn God, And say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?" 14 But you do see trouble and grief; You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
• Ps 11:4-5 : 4 Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men. 5 Yahweh examines the righteous, But the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
• Ps 73:3-9 : 3 For I was envious of the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no struggles in their death, But their strength is firm. 5 They are free from burdens of men, Neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment. 7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit. 8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression. 9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth. 10 Therefore their people return to them, And they drink up waters of abundance. 11 They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?" 12 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
• Prov 5:21 : 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.
• Prov 25:21-23 : 21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; If he is thirsty, give him water to drink: 22 For you will heap coals of fire on his head, And Yahweh will reward you. 23 The north wind brings forth rain: So a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
• Eccl 5:8 : 8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
• Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
• Isa 10:8-9 : 8 For he says, Aren't my princes all of them kings? 9 Isn't Calno as Carchemish? Isn't Hamath as Arpad? Isn't Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
• Isa 56:12 : 12 Come you, [say they], I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure.
• Jer 12:1-3 : 1 Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? 2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart. 3 But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
• Amos 8:7 : 7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.
• Amos 9:2 : 2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
• Hab 1:13 : 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
• Luke 12:16-20 : 16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly. 17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?' 18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."' 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
• Luke 12:45 : 45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
• 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.