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Job 23:7 — King James Version← Study notes

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.


Job 23:7Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 23:77 words
HebrewMeaning
שָׁ֗םšām
thereadvH8033
thence · there (-in · of · out) ···
יָ֭שָׁרyāšār
an upright personadjH3477
equity · Jasher · just · meet ···
נוֹכָ֣חnwōkāḥ
will be reasoningverbH3198
argue · chasten · convince · correct ···
עִמּ֑/וֹʿimwō
with himpronH5973
against · and · as · before ···
וַ/אֲפַלְּטָ֥הwaʾăpaləṭāh
and I will deliverconjH6403
carry away safe · deliver · escape
לָ֝/נֶ֗צַחlāneṣaḥ
to perpetuitypronH5331
constantly · end · ever · perpetual ···
מִ/שֹּׁפְטִֽ/יmišōpəṭiy
from judge mypronH8199
avenge · that condemn · defend · execute ···
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 23:7

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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