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Job 13:3 — King James Version← Study notes

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.


Job 13:3Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 13:39 words
HebrewMeaning
אוּלָ֗םʾwlām
butadvH199
but · howbeit · in very deed · surely ···
אֲ֭נִיʾăniy
IprepH589
me · mine · myself · we ···
אֶלʾel
topronH413
according to · after · against · among ···
שַׁדַּ֣יšaday
the AlmightynounH7706
אֲדַבֵּ֑רʾădabēr
I will speakverbH1696
appoint · bid · command · commune ···
וְ/הוֹכֵ֖חַwəhwōkēḥa
and to argueconjH3198
argue · chasten · convince · correct ···
אֶלʾel
topronH413
according to · after · against · among ···
אֵ֣לʾēl
GodnounH410
goodly · great · idol · might ···
אֶחְפָּֽץʾeḥəpāṣ
I desireverbH2654
any at all · take) delight · desire · favour ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 13:3

What ye know, the same do I know also; I am not inferior to you. By which same words he made known what exceeding humility he had, who says that he was ‘not inferior’ to them, whose life by holy living he very far surpassed. For he makes good that ‘what they knew he knew,’ who by knowing the things of heaven transcended their earthly thoughts through the spirit of prophecy in addition. It goes on; Ver 3. Yet still I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 11 §31
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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