Job 27:22

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

Referenced Verses

• Exod 9:14 : 14 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
• Exod 14:25-28 : 25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!" 26 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen." 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
• Deut 29:20 : 20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
• Deut 32:23 : 23 I will heap evils on them; I will spend my arrows on them:
• Josh 10:11 : 11 It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
• Judg 4:17-21 : 17 However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. 18 Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don't be afraid. He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug. 19 He said to her, Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him. 20 He said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man does come and inquire of you, and say, Is there any man here? that you shall say, No. 21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
• Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, They shall have no way to flee; Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."
• Job 20:24 : 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.
• Isa 10:3 : 3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
• Jer 13:14 : 14 I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.
• Ezek 5:11 : 11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, 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, and I also will have no pity.
• Ezek 9:5-6 : 5 To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have you pity; 6 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
• Ezek 24:14 : 14 I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, 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 doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.
• Amos 2:14 : 14 Flight will perish from the swift; And the strong won't strengthen his force; Neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
• Amos 9:1-3 : 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. 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. 3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
• Rom 8:32 : 32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
• 2 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus{Tartarus is another name for Hell}, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; 5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;