Job 32:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For I have been full of words, Distressed me hath the spirit of my breast,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֭י מָלֵ֣תִי מִלִּ֑ים הֱ֝צִיקַ֗תְנִי ר֣וּחַ בִּטְנִֽי׃

Transliteration

For kî mālētî millîm hĕṣîqatnî rûaḥ biṭnî

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *mālētî*: qal perfect 1st person common singular - I am full of
• *millîm*: noun feminine plural - words
• *hĕṣîqatnî*: hiphil perfect 3rd person feminine singular + 1st person common singular suffix - it constrains me
• *rûaḥ*: noun feminine singular construct - spirit of
• *biṭnî*: noun feminine singular + 1st person common singular suffix - my belly/inner self

Word Meanings

• *mālētî millîm*: I am full of words/I have much to say
• *hĕṣîqatnî*: it constrains me/it compels me/it presses me
• *rûaḥ biṭnî*: spirit of my belly/spirit within me/my inner spirit

Referenced Verses

• Ps 39:3 : 3 Hot `is' my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
• Jer 20:9 : 9 And I said, `I do not mention Him, Nor do I speak any more in His name,' And it hath been in my heart As a burning fire shut up in my bones, And I have been weary of containing, And I am not able.
• Ezek 3:14-27 : 14 And a spirit hath lifted me up, and doth take me away, and I go bitterly, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah on me `is' strong. 15 And I come in unto the Removed, at Tel-Ahib, who are dwelling at the river Chebar, and where they are dwelling I also dwell seven days, causing astonishment in their midst. 16 And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven days, 17 that there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from My mouth a word, and hast warned them from Me. 18 In My saying to the wicked: Thou dost surely die; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he doth live; he -- the wicked -- in his iniquity dieth, and his blood from thy hand I require. 19 And thou, because thou hast warned the wicked, and he hath not turned back from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he in his iniquity dieth, and thou thy soul hast delivered. 20 `And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dieth; because thou hast not warned him, in his sin he dieth, and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require. 21 And thou, because thou hast warned him -- the righteous -- that the righteous sin not, and he hath not sinned, he surely liveth, because he hath been warned; and thou thy soul hast delivered.' 22 And there is on me there a hand of Jehovah, and He saith to me, `Rise, go forth to the valley, and there I do speak with thee.' 23 And I rise and go forth unto the valley, and lo, there the honour of Jehovah is standing as the honour that I had seen by the river Chebar, and I fall on my face. 24 And come into me doth a spirit, and causeth me to stand on my feet, and He speaketh with me, and saith unto me, `Go in, be shut up in the midst of thy house. 25 `And thou, son of man, lo, they have put on thee thick bands, and have bound thee with them, and thou goest not forth in their midst; 26 and thy tongue I cause to cleave unto thy palate, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious house `are' they. 27 And in My speaking with thee, I do open thy mouth, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah; the hearer doth hear, and the forbearer doth forbear; for a rebellious house `are' they.
• Acts 4:20 : 20 for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'
• 2 Cor 5:13-14 : 13 for whether we were beside ourselves, `it was' to God; whether we be of sound mind -- `it is' to you, 14 for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,