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Job 23:5 — King James Version← Study notes

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.


Job 23:5Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 23:57 words
HebrewMeaning
אֵ֭דְעָהʾēdəʿāh
I want to knowverbH3045
acquaintance · advise · answer · appoint ···
מִלִּ֣יםmiliym
the wordsnounH4405
answer · matter · any thing to say · to speak ···
יַעֲנֵ֑/נִיyaʿănēniy
which he will answer meverbH6030
afflict (by mistake for
וְ֝/אָבִ֗ינָהwəʾābiynāh
and I want to understandconjH995
consider · be cunning · diligently · direct ···
מַהmah
what?particleH4100
oft · ) · thing · what (end ···
יֹּ֥אמַרyōʾmar
will he sayverbH559
appoint · avouch · bid · boast self ···
לִֽ/יliy
pron
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 23:5

Then Job answered and said, Now also is my complaint bitter: and the hand of my stroke is heavier than my groaning. In his own way blessed Job sets out with the plainer sort of words, but his declaration he closes by the deep following on of mystery. For the pain of the afflicted man ought to have been healed by the consoling of his friends, but because their consoling broke out into the soothings of deceit, the pain of the stricken man was made harsher. For whereas Eliphaz…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 16 §30
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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