King James Version
Job 24:25 in the King James Version says “And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?” — study this verse from Job chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?”
Job 24:25 · KJV
Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. are gone: Heb. are not taken: Heb. closed up
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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
“And if it be not so now”
H645strictly a demonstrative particle, here; but used of time, now or then
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“and make”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“nothing worth”
H408not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
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