Job 20:2 — Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 20:26 words

HebrewMeaning

לָ֭/כֵןlākēn

thereforepronH3651

after that (this · -wards) · as... as · asmuch as yet ···

שְׂעִפַּ֣/יśəʿipay

disquieting thoughts mynounH5587

יְשִׁיב֑וּ/נִיyəšiybwniy

they make respond meverbH7725

build · circumcise · dig · do anything ···

וּ֝/בַ/עֲב֗וּרwbaʿăbwr

and in orderconjH5668

for · that · to

ח֣וּשִׁ/יḥwšiy

to agitate IverbH2363

ready

בִֽ/יbiy

pron

ℹWords 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 20:2

Therefore do my thoughts changefully succeed one another, and my mind is transported diverse ways. As though he said in plain words; ‘Because I see the terribleness of the last Judgment, therefore I am confounded in a state of consternation by the tumults of my thoughts.’ For the mind spreads itself wider in its range of thought, the more it considers how dreadful that is which threatens it. And ‘the mind is transported diverse ways,’ when with anxious alarm she weighs and…
Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 15 §1

Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain

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