King James Version
Job 30:23 in the King James Version says “For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.” — study this verse from Job chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.”
Job 30:23 · KJV
Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. become: Heb. turned to be cruel thy: Heb. the strength of thy hand
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance . substance: or, wisdom
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. grave: Heb. heap
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble ? was not my soul grieved for the poor? in trouble: Heb. hard of day?
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“For I know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
“me to death”
H4194death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
“that thou wilt bring”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“and to the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“appointed”
H4150properly, an appointment, i.e., a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“for all living”
H2416alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin
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