King James Version
Job 13:16 in the King James Version says “He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.” — study this verse from Job chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.”
Job 13:16 · KJV
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. maintain: Heb. prove, or, argue
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“He also shall be my salvation”
H3444something saved, i.e., (abstractly) deliverance; hence, aid, victory, prosperity
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
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