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Job 4:9 — King James Version← Study notes

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.


Job 4:9Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 4:96 words
HebrewMeaning
מִ/נִּשְׁמַ֣תminišəmat
from the breath ofpronH5397
breath · inspiration · soul · spirit
אֱל֣וֹהַʾĕlwōha
GodnounH433
god. See
יֹאבֵ֑דוּyōʾbēdw
they perishverbH6
destroy · not escape · fail · lose ···
וּ/מֵ/ר֖וּחַwmērwḥa
and from the breath ofconjH7307
anger · blast · breath · cool ···
אַפּ֣/וֹʾapwō
anger hisnounH639
before · countenance · face · forebearing ···
יִכְלֽוּyikəlw
they come to an endverbH3615
cease · consume · determine · destroy ···
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 4:9

Even, as I have seen, they that plough iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap the same, by the blast of God do they perish, and by the breath of His nostrils are they consumed. To ‘sow griefs’ is to utter deceits, but to ‘reap griefs’ is to prevail by so speaking. Or, surely, they ‘sow griefs,’ who do froward actions, they ‘reap griefs,’ when they ate punished for this forwardness. For the harvest of grief is the recompense of condemnation, and whereas it is immediately…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 5 §34
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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