Job
Job 22:12–14
12Is not God as high as the heavens?
Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
13Yet you say: ‘What does God know?
Does He judge through thick darkness?
14Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us
as He traverses the vault of heaven.a’
Footnotes
- a 22:14 Or heaven’s horizon or the circle of the sky
Word by word
Each English word or phrase beside the Hebrew it translates, in the order of the English. Choose a number to open that word’s study.
Job 22:12
| English | Hebrew | Sounds like | Grammar | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Is not | הֲֽלֹא־ | hălō- | Adverb - Negative particle | H3808 not |
| God | אֱ֭לוֹהַּ | ’ĕ·lō·w·ah | Noun - masculine singular | H433 god, God |
| as high | גֹּ֣בַהּ | gō·ḇah | Noun - masculine singular construct | H1363 height |
| as the heavens | שָׁמָ֑יִם | šā·mā·yim | Noun - masculine plural | H8064 sky, aloft |
| Look at | וּרְאֵ֤ה | ū·rə·’êh | Conjunctive waw; Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | H7200 see |
| the highest | רֹ֖אשׁ | rōš | Noun - masculine singular construct | H7218 head |
| stars | כּוֹכָבִ֣ים | kō·w·ḵā·ḇîm | Noun - masculine plural | H3556 star |
| how | כִּי־ | kî- | Conjunction | H3588 burning, branding |
| lofty they are | רָֽמּוּ׃ | rām·mū | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | H7311 be high, exalted, rise |
Job 22:13
| English | Hebrew | Sounds like | Grammar | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yet you say | וְֽ֭אָמַרְתָּ | wə·’ā·mar·tā | Conjunctive waw; Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular | H559 utter, say |
| What | מַה־ | mah- | Interrogative | H4100 what? how? aught |
| does God | אֵ֑ל | ’êl | Noun - masculine singular | H410 god |
| know | יָּ֣דַֽע | yā·ḏa‘ | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | H3045 know |
| Does He judge | יִשְׁפּֽוֹט׃ | yiš·pō·wṭ | Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | H8199 judge, govern |
| through | הַבְעַ֖ד | haḇ·‘aḏ | Preposition | H1157 separation |
| thick darkness | עֲרָפֶ֣ל | ‘ă·rā·p̄el | Noun - masculine singular | H6205 cloud, heavy cloud |
Job 22:14
| English | Hebrew | Sounds like | Grammar | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thick clouds | עָבִ֣ים | ‘ā·ḇîm | Noun - common plural | H5645 dark cloud, cloud-mass, thicket |
| veil | סֵֽתֶר־ | sê·ṯer- | Noun - masculine singular | H5643 covering, hiding-place, secrecy |
| Him | ל֭וֹ | lōw | Preposition; third person masculine singular | |
| so He does not | וְלֹ֣א | wə·lō | Conjunctive waw; Adverb - Negative particle | H3808 not |
| see us | יִרְאֶ֑ה | yir·’eh | Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | H7200 see |
| as He traverses | יִתְהַלָּֽךְ׃ | yiṯ·hal·lāḵ | Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | H1980 go, come, walk |
| the vault | וְח֥וּג | wə·ḥūḡ | Conjunctive waw; Noun - masculine singular construct | H2329 vault |
| of heaven | שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם | šā·ma·yim | Noun - masculine plural | H8064 sky, aloft |
Cross-references
Other passages that speak to the same thing. Point at one to read it.
Job 22:12 Isaiah 66:1 · Job 11:8 · Ecclesiastes 5:2 · Psalm 8:3–4
Job 22:13 Ezekiel 8:12 · Psalm 10:11 · Psalm 73:11 · Ezekiel 9:9 · Psalm 59:7 · Psalm 94:7–9 · Isaiah 29:15 · Psalm 64:5
Job 22:14 Psalm 97:2 · Psalm 139:11–12 · Psalm 33:14
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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.