King James Version
Job 34:24 in the King James Version says “He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead. number: Heb. searching out” — study this verse from Job chapter 34 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead. number: Heb. searching out”
Job 34:24 · KJV
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God. enter: Heb. go
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead. number: Heb. searching out
Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed. destroyed: Heb. crushed
He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others; open: Heb. place of beholders
KJV Study — Public Domain
“He shall break in pieces”
H7489properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e., bad (physically, socially or morally)
“mighty men”
H3524vast, whether in extent (figuratively, of power, mighty; of time, aged), or in number, many
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“and set”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
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