Job 17:10
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שׁוּב
shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); ...
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
יָכֹל
yâkôl
to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
מָצָא
mâtsâʼ
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
חָכָם
châkâm
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
Key Terms in This Verse
מָצָא mâtsâʼ
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
Study H4672 →שׁוּב shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
Study H7725 →אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →Cross References
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me t...
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
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