King James Version
Job 32:18 in the King James Version says “For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. matter: Heb. words spirit: Heb. spirit of my belly” — study this verse from Job chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. matter: Heb. words spirit: Heb. spirit of my belly”
Job 32:18 · KJV
When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)
I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. matter: Heb. words spirit: Heb. spirit of my belly
Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. hath: Heb. is not opened
I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. be: Heb. breathe
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 am full”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“the 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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