King James Version
Job 23:2 in the King James Version says “Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. stroke: Heb. hand” — study this verse from Job chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. stroke: Heb. hand”
Job 23:2 · KJV
Then Job answered and said,
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. stroke: Heb. hand
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“Even to day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“bitter”
H4805bitterness, i.e., (figuratively) rebellion; concretely, bitter, or rebellious
“my stroke”
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
“is heavier”
H3513to be heavy, i.e., in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same
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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