Job 36:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; They shall die without knowledge.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאִם־לֹ֣א יִ֭שְׁמְעוּ בְּשֶׁ֣לַח יַעֲבֹ֑רוּ וְ֝יִגְוְע֗וּ כִּבְלִי־דָֽעַת׃

Transliteration

wə-ʾim-lōʾ yišməʿû bəšelaḥ yaʿăbōrû wə-yigwəʿû kiblî-dāʿat

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʾim-lōʾ*: conjunction + conditional particle + negative particle - but if not
• *yišməʿû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they listen/obey
• *bəšelaḥ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - by javelin/weapon
• *yaʿăbōrû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they pass away/perish
• *wə-yigwəʿû*: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they expire/die
• *kiblî-dāʿat*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct + noun, feminine singular - like without knowledge

Word Meanings

• *yišməʿû*: listen/obey/hear
• *šelaḥ*: javelin/weapon/missile/sword
• *yaʿăbōrû*: pass away/perish/die
• *yigwəʿû*: expire/die/perish
• *blî-dāʿat*: without knowledge/understanding/awareness

Referenced Verses

• Job 4:21 : 21 Isn't their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
• Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; For the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
• John 8:21-24 : 21 Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come." 22 The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'" 23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. 24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."
• Rom 2:8-9 : 8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, 9 oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, on the Jew first, and also on the Greek.
• Job 15:22 : 22 He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.
• Isa 1:20 : 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."
• Deut 18:15-22 : 15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen; 16 according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die. 17 Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. 19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. 21 If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken? 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.
• Deut 29:15-20 : 15 but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day 16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed; 17 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); 18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; 19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. 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.