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Job 9:1 — King James Version← Study notes

Then Job answered and said,


Job 9:1Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 9:13 words
HebrewMeaning
וַ/יַּ֥עַןwayaʿan
and he answeredconjH6030
afflict (by mistake for
אִיּ֗וֹבʾiywōb
JobnounH347
וַ/יֹּאמַֽרwayōʾmar
and he saidconjH559
appoint · avouch · bid · boast self ···
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 9:1

BAD minds, if they have once broken out into the eagerness of opposition, whether what they hear from those that withstand them be right or wrong, assail it with contradictory replies; for whereas the speaker is unwelcome from being in opposition, not even what is right is welcome when he utters it. But, on the other hand, the hearts of the good, whose dislike rises not at the speaker but at the offence, in such sort pass sentence on what is amiss, as to adopt still any right…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 9 §1
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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