King James Version
Job 13:11 in the King James Version says “Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?” — study this verse from Job chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?”
Job 13:11 · King James Version
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. Hold: Heb. Be silent from me
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not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“Shall not his excellency”
H7613an elevation or leprous scab; figuratively, elation or cheerfulness; exaltation in rank or character
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and his dread”
H6343a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
“fall”
H5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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