King James Version
Job 4:18 in the King James Version says “Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: and his: or, nor in his angels, in whom h...” — study this verse from Job chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: and his: or, nor in his angels, in whom he put light”
Job 4:18 · KJV
It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, there: or, I heard a still voice
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: and his: or, nor in his angels, in whom he put light
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. destroyed: Heb. beaten in pieces
KJV Study — Public Domain
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“Behold he put no trust”
H539properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanen
“and his angels”
H4397a messenger; specifically, of god, i.e., an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)
“he charged”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
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