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Job 24:12 — King James Version← Study notes

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.


Job 24:12Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 24:1210 words
HebrewMeaning
מֵ֘/עִ֤ירmēʿiyr
from the citypronH5892
city · court · town
מְתִ֨יםmətiym
mennounH4962
few · friends · persons · small
יִנְאָ֗קוּyinəʾāqw
they groanverbH5008
וְ/נֶֽפֶשׁwənepeš
and the throat ofconjH5315
appetite · beast · body · breath ···
חֲלָלִ֥יםḥălāliym
those fatally woundedadjH2491
profane · slain · slew · wounded
תְּשַׁוֵּ֑עַtəšawēʿa
it cries for helpverbH7768
out) · shout
וֶ֝/אֱל֗וֹהַּweʾĕlwōha
and GodconjH433
god. See
לֹאlōʾ
notparticleH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
יָשִׂ֥יםyāśiym
he putsverbH7760
any wise · bring · call · care ···
תִּפְלָֽהtipəlāh
offensivenessnounH8604
foolishly
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 24:12

Neither have I gone back from the commandments of His lips. 43. As servants that serve well are ever intent upon their masters’ countenances, that the things they may bid they may hear readily, and strive to fulfil; so the minds of the righteous in their bent are upon Almighty God, and in His Scripture they as it were fix their eyes on His face, that whereas God delivers therein all that He wills, they may not be at variance with His will, in proportion as they learn that…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 16 §44
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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