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Job 38:21 — King James Version← Study notes

Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?


Job 38:21Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 38:217 words
HebrewMeaning
יָ֭דַעְתָּyādaʿətā
you knowverbH3045
acquaintance · advise · answer · appoint ···
כִּיkiy
forconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
אָ֣זʾāz
thenadvH227
for · from · hitherto · now ···
תִּוָּלֵ֑דtiwālēd
you were bornverbH3205
beget · birth · born · bring forth (children ···
וּ/מִסְפַּ֖רwmisəpar
and the number ofconjH4557
abundance · all · few · finite ···
יָמֶ֣י/ךָyāmeykā
days yournounH3117
always · chronicals · continually · daily ···
רַבִּֽיםrabiym
is manyadjH7227
-ant · -antly) · captain · elder ···
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 38:21

Didst thou know then that thou wast about to be born, and didst thou know the number of thy days? As if He were openly saying, What wonder if thou understandest not thine end, since thou dost not comprehend thy beginning? And since thou knowest not with what beginning thou camest hither, what wonder, if thou canst not tell with what end thou art taken away? If therefore it was My work to bring thee forward from secresy to sight at thy beginning, it will be Mine also to bring…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 29 §34
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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