King James Version
Job 15:17 in the King James Version says “I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;” — study this verse from Job chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;”
Job 15:17 · KJV
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“thee hear”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“me and that which I have seen”
H2372to gaze at; mentally to perceive, contemplate (with pleasure); specifically, to have a vision of
“I will declare”
H5608properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e., (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e., celebra
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