King James Version
Job 5:11 in the King James Version says “To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.” — study this verse from Job chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.”
Job 5:11 · KJV
Which doeth great things and unsearchable ; marvellous things without number: unsearchable: Heb. there is no search without: Heb. till there be no number
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: fields: Heb. outplaces
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. their enterprise: or, any thing
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“To set up”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“on high”
H4791altitude, i.e., concretely (an elevated place), abstractly (elevation, figuratively (elation), or adverbially (aloft)
“that those which mourn”
H6937to be ashy, i.e., dark-colored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments)
“may be exalted”
H7682to be (causatively, make) lofty, especially inaccessible; by implication, safe, strong; used literally and figuratively
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