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Job 9:21 — King James Version← Study notes

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.


Job 9:21Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 9:217 words
HebrewMeaning
תָּֽםtām
am blamelessadjH8535
perfect · plain · undefiled · upright
אָ֭נִיʾāniy
IprepH589
me · mine · myself · we ···
לֹֽאlōʾ
notparticleH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
אֵדַ֥עʾēdaʿ
I knowverbH3045
acquaintance · advise · answer · appoint ···
נַפְשִׁ֗/יnapəšiy
self mynounH5315
appetite · beast · body · breath ···
אֶמְאַ֥סʾeməʾas
I rejectverbH3988
cast away · contemn · despise · disdain ···
חַיָּֽ/יḥayāy
life mynounH2416
age · appetite · beast · company ···
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 9:21

Though I were perfect, even this my soul shall not know. Most commonly if we know the good things that we do, we are led to entertain pride; if we are ignorant of them, we cannot keep them. For who would not, in however slight degree, be rendered proud by the consciousness of his virtue? or who, again, would keep safe within him that good, which he does not know of? what then remains as a provision against either of these evils, saving that all the good things that we do, in…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 9 §36
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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