Job 36:31

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי־בָ֭ם יָדִ֣ין עַמִּ֑ים יִֽתֶּן־אֹ֥כֶל לְמַכְבִּֽיר׃

Transliteration

kî-bām yādîn ʿammîm yitten-ʾōkel ləmakbîr

Grammar Details

• *kî-bām*: conjunction + preposition with 3rd masculine plural suffix - for by them
• *yādîn*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he judges
• *ʿammîm*: noun, masculine plural - peoples
• *yitten-ʾōkel*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + noun, masculine singular - he gives food
• *ləmakbîr*: preposition + Hiphil participle, masculine singular - in abundance

Word Meanings

• *yādîn*: judges/governs/rules
• *ʿammîm*: peoples/nations/folks
• *yitten*: gives/provides/grants
• *ʾōkel*: food/nourishment/provisions
• *makbîr*: abundance/plenty/great quantity

Referenced Verses

• Acts 14:17 : 17 though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good -- from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'
• Ps 136:25 : 25 Giving food to all flesh, For to the age `is' His kindness.
• Job 37:13 : 13 Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness -- He doth cause it to come.
• Ps 104:13-15 : 13 Watering hills from His upper chambers, From the fruit of Thy works is the earth satisfied. 14 Causing grass to spring up for cattle, And herb for the service of man, To bring forth bread from the earth, 15 And wine -- it rejoiceth the heart of man, To cause the face to shine from oil, And bread -- the heart of man it supporteth.
• Ps 104:27-28 : 27 All of them unto Thee do look, To give their food in its season. 28 Thou dost give to them -- they gather, Thou dost open Thy hand -- they `are' satisfied `with' good.
• Job 38:22-23 : 22 Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see? 23 That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.
• Job 38:26-27 : 26 To cause `it' to rain on a land -- no man, A wilderness -- no man in it. 27 To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
• Ps 65:9-9 : 9 Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God `is' full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it, 10 Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest. 11 Thou hast crowned the year of Thy goodness, And Thy paths drop fatness. 12 Drop do the pastures of a wilderness, And joy of the heights Thou girdest on. 13 Clothed have lambs the flock, And valleys are covered with corn, They shout -- yea, they sing!
• Gen 6:17 : 17 `And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which `is' a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that `is' in the earth doth expire.
• Gen 7:17-24 : 17 And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth; 18 and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which `are' under the whole heavens; 20 fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered; 21 and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind; 22 all in whose nostrils `is' breath of a living spirit -- of all that `is' in the dry land -- have died. 23 And wiped away is all the substance that is on the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens; yea, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who `are' with him in the ark; 24 and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.
• Gen 19:24 : 24 and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;
• Exod 9:23-25 : 23 And Moses stretcheth out his rod towards the heavens, and Jehovah hath given voices and hail, and fire goeth towards the earth, and Jehovah raineth hail on the land of Egypt, 24 and there is hail, and fire catching itself in the midst of the hail, very grievous, such as hath not been in all the land of Egypt since it hath become a nation. 25 And the hail smiteth in all the land of Egypt all that `is' in the field, from man even unto beast, and every herb of the field hath the hail smitten, and every tree of the field it hath broken;
• Deut 8:2 : 2 and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which `is' in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.
• Deut 8:15 : 15 who is causing thee to go in the great and the terrible wilderness -- burning serpent, and scorpion, and thirst -- where there is no water; who is bringing out to thee waters from the flinty rock;
• Josh 10:11 : 11 And it cometh to pass, in their fleeing from the face of Israel -- they `are' in the descent of Beth-Horon -- and Jehovah hath cast upon them great stones out of the heavens, unto Azekah, and they die; more are they who have died by the hailstones than they whom the sons of Israel have slain by the sword.
• 1 Sam 2:10 : 10 Jehovah -- broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.'
• 1 Sam 7:10 : 10 and Samuel is causing the burnt-offering to go up -- and the Philistines have drawn nigh to battle against Israel -- and Jehovah doth thunder with a great noise, on that day, upon the Philistines, and troubleth them, and they are smitten before Israel.
• 1 Sam 12:18 : 18 And Samuel calleth unto Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth voices and rain, on that day, and all the people greatly fear Jehovah and Samuel;