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Job 22:15

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Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.	Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?	Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Hast thou marked^H8104 the old^H5769 way^H734 which wicked^H205 men^H4962 have trodden^H1869?

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Original Hebrew

הַאֹרַח עֹולָם תִּשְׁמֹר אֲשֶׁר דָּרְכוּ מְתֵי־אָוֶן׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
הַ/אֹ֣רַח	ha./'O.rach	H734	HTi/Ncbsc	¿/ a path of
עוֹלָ֣ם	o.Lam	H5769	HNcmsa	antiquity
תִּשְׁמֹ֑ר	tish.Mor	H8104	HVqi2ms	will you keep
אֲשֶׁ֖ר	'a.Sher	H834	HTr	which
דָּרְכ֣וּ	da.re.Khu	H1869	HVqp3cp	they have trodden
מְתֵי	me.tei-	H4962	HNcmpc	men of
אָֽוֶן	'A.ven	H205	HNcmsa	wickedness

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H205 — אָוֶן (ʼâven, aw-ven'): from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol; affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare אַיִן.
• H734 — אֹרַח (ʼôrach, o'-rakh): from אָרַח; a well-trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravan; manner, path, race, rank, traveller, troop, (by-, high-) way.
• H1869 — דָּרַךְ (dârak, daw-rak'): a primitive root; to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string abow (by treading on it in bending); archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
• H4962 — מַת (math, math): from the same as מָתַי; properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural); [phrase] few, [idiom] friends, men, persons, [idiom] small.
• H5769 — עוֹלָם (ʻôwlâm, o-lawm'): or עֹלָם; from עָלַם; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always; alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-)) ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world ([phrase] without end). Compare נֶצַח, עַד.
• H8104 — שָׁמַר (shâmar, shaw-mar'): a primitive root; properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.; beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H834 — אֲשֶׁר (ʼăsher, ash-er'): a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.; [idiom] after, [idiom] alike, as (soon as), because, [idiom] every, for, [phrase] forasmuch, [phrase] from whence, [phrase] how(-soever), [idiom] if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), [idiom] though, [phrase] until, [phrase] whatsoever, when, where ([phrase] -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, [phrase] whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

• the old way — Genesis 6:5, Genesis 6:11-13, Luke 17:26-27

Reciprocal references (8): Genesis 6:12, Genesis 7:21, Genesis 7:23, Job 13:21, Job 15:29, Proverbs 10:27, Matthew 24:37, 2 Peter 2:5

Related Topics

• Torrey’s: DELUGE, THE
• Nave’s: ANTEDILUVIANS

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