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Job 3:20
| ← Job 3:19 | Job 3:20 (KJV) | Job 3:21 → |
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The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
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Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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Verse Text
KJV with Strong's Numbers
Wherefore is lightH216 givenH5414 to him that is in miseryH6001, and lifeH2416 unto the bitterH4751 in soulH5315;
Original Hebrew
לָמָּה יִתֵּן לְעָמֵל אֹור וְחַיִּים לְמָרֵי נָפֶשׁ׃
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Morphology | Gloss |
|---|---|---|---|---|
לָ֤/מָּה |
La./mah | H4100 | HR/Ti | (to)/ why? |
יִתֵּ֣ן |
yi.Ten | H5414 | HVqi3ms | does someone give |
לְ/עָמֵ֣ל |
le./'a.Mel | H6001 | HR/Aamsa | to/ a sufferer |
א֑וֹר |
'or | H216 | HNcbsa | light |
וְ֝/חַיִּ֗ים |
ve./chai.Yim | H2416 | HC/Ncmpa | and/ life |
לְ/מָ֣רֵי |
le./Ma.rei | H4751 | HR/Aampc | to/ (people) bitter of |
נָֽפֶשׁ |
Na.fesh | H5315 | HNcbsa | soul |
Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)
Strong's References
- H216 — אוֹר (ʼôwr, ore): from אוֹר; illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.); bright, clear, [phrase] day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
- H2416 — חַי (chay, khah'-ee): from חָיָה; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively; [phrase] age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, [phrase] merry, multitude, [phrase] (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
- H4751 — מַר (mar, mar): or (feminine) מָרָה; from מָרַר; bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly; [phrase] angry, bitter(-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, [idiom] great, heavy.
- H5315 — נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh, neh'-fesh): from נָפַשׁ; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental); any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.
- H5414 — נָתַן (nâthan, naw-than'): a primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.); add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, [idiom] avenge, [idiom] be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, [phrase] cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, [idiom] doubtless, [idiom] without fail, fasten, frame, [idiom] get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), [idiom] have, [idiom] indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), [phrase] lie, lift up, make, [phrase] O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, [idiom] pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), [phrase] sing, [phrase] slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, [idiom] surely, [idiom] take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, [phrase] weep, [phrase] willingly, [phrase] withdraw, [phrase] would (to) God, yield.
- H6001 — עָמֵל (ʻâmêl, aw-male'): from עָמַל; toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful; that laboureth, that is a misery, had taken (labour), wicked, workman.
The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:
- H4100 — מָה (mâh, maw): or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses; how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
Cross References
Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)
- light — Job 3:16, Job 33:28, Job 33:30
- the bitter — 1 Samuel 1:10, 2 Kings 4:27, Job 7:15-16, Proverbs 31:6
- Wherefore — Job 6:9, Job 7:15-16, Jeremiah 20:18
Reciprocal references (17): Genesis 27:46, Genesis 30:1, Exodus 16:3, Numbers 11:15, 1 Kings 19:4, Job 9:18, Job 10:1, Job 13:26, Job 18:18, Job 21:25, Job 36:20, Job 40:2, Ecclesiastes 2:17, Isaiah 15:4, Jeremiah 8:3, Jonah 4:3, Revelation 9:6
Related Topics
- Thompson Chain: HOPE-DESPAIR
- Nave’s: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES, DESPONDENCY, GOD
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