King James Version
Job 14:15 in the King James Version says “Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.” — study this verse from Job chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.”
Job 14:15 · KJV
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Thou shalt call”
H7121to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
“and I will answer”
H6030properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e., pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout,
“to the work”
H4639an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
“of thine hands”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“thee thou wilt have a desire”
H3700properly, to become pale, i.e., (by implication) to pine after; also to fear
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