The Meaning of Job 27:9 Explained

Job 27:9

KJV: Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

YLT: His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?

Darby: Will God hear his cry when distress cometh upon him?

ASV: Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Will God  hear  his cry  when trouble  cometh  upon him? 

What does Job 27:9 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 27:1-23 - The Justice Of God
Zophar ought now to have taken up the discourse, but, as he is silent, Job proceeds. First he renews his protestations of integrity, Job 27:1-10. He denies the charge of being ungodly, and says that till he dies he will not put away his integrity. He refuses to justify the accusations of his friends, and demands that they who had spoken against him should suffer the punishments which they had suggested as his due, Job 27:7. The falsity of their charges was surely evidenced by the fact that he could still delight in the Almighty and call upon His name, Job 27:10.
Then he speaks of the portion of the wicked, Job 27:11-23. Zophar and the rest could hardly have spoken more strongly. Though Job denied the application to himself, he was willing to admit the general truth of these propositions. Through what marvelous alternations the mind of man passes-now on the crest of the wave and again in the trough; arguing, debating, questioning; now antagonizing a position, and then almost accepting it! But be of good cheer! "At eventide it shall be light!" "I have been within the gates," said one brave explorer, "and there is no dark valley." [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 27

1  Job protests his sincerity
8  The hypocrite is without hope
11  The blessings which the wicked have are turned into curses

What do the individual words in Job 27:9 mean?

his cry will hear God when comes upon him trouble
הַֽ֭צַעֲקָתוֹ יִשְׁמַ֥ע ׀ אֵ֑ל כִּֽי־ תָב֖וֹא עָלָ֣יו צָרָֽה

הַֽ֭צַעֲקָתוֹ  his  cry 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: צְעָקָה  
Sense: cry, outcry.
יִשְׁמַ֥ע ׀  will  hear 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: שָׁמַע 
Sense: to hear, listen to, obey.
אֵ֑ל  God 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: אֵל 
Sense: god, god-like one, mighty one.
תָב֖וֹא  comes 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
עָלָ֣יו  upon  him 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine singular
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
צָרָֽה  trouble 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: צָרָה 
Sense: straits, distress, trouble.