King James Version
Job 21:4 in the King James Version says “As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? troubled: Heb. shortened?” — study this verse from Job chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? troubled: Heb. shortened?”
Job 21:4 · KJV
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? troubled: Heb. shortened?
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. Mark: Heb. Look unto me
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“be troubled”
H7114to dock off, i.e., curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)
“and if it were so why should not my spirit”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
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