King James Version
Job 36:14 in the King James Version says “They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. They: Heb. Their soul dieth unclean: or, sodomites” — study this verse from Job chapter 36 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. They: Heb. Their soul dieth unclean: or, sodomites”
Job 36:14 · KJV
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge. perish: Heb. pass away
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. They: Heb. Their soul dieth unclean: or, sodomites
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. poor: or, afflicted
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness. that: Heb. the rest of thy table
KJV Study — Public Domain
“They”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
“and their life”
H2416alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin
“is among the unclean”
H6945a (quasi) sacred person, i.e., (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry
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