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Job 39:30 — King James Version← Study notes

Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.


Job 39:30Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 39:308 words
HebrewMeaning
ו/אפרח/וwʾprḥw
youngconjH667
וְ/אֶפְרֹחָ֥י/וwəʾepərōḥāyw
youngconjH667
יְעַלְעוּyəʿaləʿw
they drinkverbH5966
דָ֑םdām
bloodnounH1818
-guiltiness · innocent
וּ/בַ/אֲשֶׁ֥רwbaʾăšer
and at whereconjH834
after · alike · because · every ···
חֲ֝לָלִ֗יםḥălāliym
those slain areadjH2491
profane · slain · slew · wounded
שָׁ֣םšām
is thereadvH8033
thence · there (-in · of · out) ···
הֽוּאhwʾ
itprepH1931
as for her · him · it · the same ···
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 39:30

Her young ones suck up blood. As if it were plainly said; She herself indeed feeds on the contemplation of His Godhead, but because her hearers cannot understand the mysteries of the Godhead, they are satiated with hearing of the blood of the Lord Crucified. For to suck up blood, is to reverence the weaknesses of the Lord’s Passion. Hence it is, that the same Paul, who, as we said a little before, had soared to the secrets of the third heaven, said to his disciples; For I…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 31 §103
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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