King James Version
Job 11:5 in the King James Version says “But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;” — study this verse from Job chapter 11 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;”
Job 11:5 · KJV
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? lies: or, devices
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
KJV Study — Public Domain
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“would speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“and open”
H6605to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
“his lips”
H8193the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
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