Job 21:27 — King James Version← Study notes

“Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.”

Job 21:27 — Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 21:276 words

HebrewMeaning

הֵ֣ןhēn

here!particleH2005

if · lo · though

יָ֭דַעְתִּיyādaʿətiy

I knowverbH3045

acquaintance · advise · answer · appoint ···

מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵי/כֶ֑םmaḥəšəbwōtēykem

thoughts yournounH4284

curious work · device · imagination · invented ···

וּ֝/מְזִמּ֗וֹתwməzimwōt

and the schemesconjH4209

discretion · intent · witty invention · lewdness ···

עָלַ֥/יʿālay

on mepronH5921

according to · after · against · among ···

תַּחְמֹֽסוּtaḥəmōsw

you do violenceverbH2554

shake off · violate · do violence · take away violently ···

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 21:27

Behold I know your thoughts, and the devices that ye wrongfully imagine against me. For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwellings of the wicked? For they had imagined him a wicked man, whom they saw, his substance gone, in a temporal way ruined. But the holy man judges them with a lofty review in proportion as amidst the losses which he had met with, he was standing with undiminished uprightness. For how had his losses of substance without hurt…
Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 15 §62

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

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