The Meaning of Job 13:23 Explained

Job 13:23

KJV: How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

YLT: How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.

Darby: How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

ASV: How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

Discover Job 13:23

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 13:23?

MEANING: What does Job 13:23 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 13:23 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 13:23?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

How many [are] mine iniquities  and sins?  make me to know  my transgression  and my sin. 

What does Job 13:23 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 13:1-28 - "though He Slay Me"
The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12. Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he was suffering, might be set down, Job 13:23.
When Job said that he knew himself to be righteous, he was clearly speaking of known sin; he knew, so far as a man may know himself, that he had not committed the sins of which his friends charged him. He could bare his life to the inspection of men and angels, being sure that no accusation of which human law-courts would take cognizance could be established against him. But this is a very different matter with the divine tribunal. When a fuller light had shone upon him from the face of God, when the patriarch had seen Him instead of merely hearing of Him by the ear, then he would "abhor himself and repent in dust and ashes," Job 42:5-6.
Job 13:15 is almost the greatest sentence ever uttered by mortal lips! Let us ask for grace to affirm it. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 13

1  Job reproves his friends for partiality
14  He professes his confidence in God;
19  and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him

What do the individual words in Job 13:23 mean?

How many [are] my iniquities and sins my transgression and my sin Make me know
כַּמָּ֣ה לִ֭י עֲוֺנ֣וֹת ؟ וְחַטָּא֑וֹת פִּֽשְׁעִ֥י וְ֝חַטָּאתִ֗י הֹדִיעֵֽנִי

כַּמָּ֣ה  How  many 
Parse: Interrogative
Root: לָמָּה 
Sense: what, how, of what kind.
לִ֭י  [are]  my 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
עֲוֺנ֣וֹת  iniquities 
Parse: Noun, common plural
Root: עָוֹן  
Sense: perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity.
؟ וְחַטָּא֑וֹת  and  sins 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine plural
Root: חַטָּאָה 
Sense: sin, sinful.
פִּֽשְׁעִ֥י  my  transgression 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: פֶּשַׁע  
Sense: transgression, rebellion.
וְ֝חַטָּאתִ֗י  and  my  sin 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: חַטָּאָה 
Sense: sin, sinful.
הֹדִיעֵֽנִי  Make  me  know 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperative, masculine singular, first person common singular
Root: דָּעָה 
Sense: to know.

What are the major concepts related to Job 13:23?

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