The Meaning of Job 9:31 Explained

Job 9:31

KJV: Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

YLT: Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.

Darby: Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.

ASV: Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Yet  shalt thou plunge  me in the ditch,  and mine own clothes  shall abhor  me. 

What does Job 9:31 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 9:1-35 - "the Daysman"
Ponder the sublimity of the conceptions of God given in this magnificent passage. To God are attributed the earthquake that rocks the pillars on which the world rests, Job 9:6; the eclipse which hides the heavenly bodies, Job 9:7; the storm in which he bows the heavens and treads majestically on the waves, Job 9:8; and the creation of the constellations, Job 9:9. Who can dare to argue with or call to account so great a God as this? Job 9:10-19. Even if a man be outwardly and inwardly righteous (that is, so far as the measure of his light), yet in such a Presence the heart of the most perfect must condemn him. "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves"¦. God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." We cannot but feel that this old-world thinker had a truer view of that conscious imperfection and sin which must be experienced by every mortal who has a right appreciation of the holiness of God, than have those who refuse to say the Lord's Prayer because it contains a petition for forgiveness!
Truly we need that Daysman! But we have Him in Jesus our Mediator, who can lay His hand on God and us, Job 9:33; 1 Timothy 2:5. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 9

1  Job acknowledges God's justice
22  Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions

What do the individual words in Job 9:31 mean?

Then into the pit You will plunge me and will abhor me my own clothes
אָ֭ז בַּשַּׁ֣חַת תִּטְבְּלֵ֑נִי וְ֝תִֽעֲב֗וּנִי שַׂלְמוֹתָֽי

בַּשַּׁ֣חַת  into  the  pit 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: שַׁחַת  
Sense: pit, destruction, grave.
תִּטְבְּלֵ֑נִי  You  will  plunge  me 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular, first person common singular
Root: טָבַל  
Sense: to dip, dip into, plunge.
וְ֝תִֽעֲב֗וּנִי  and  will  abhor  me 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Piel, Conjunctive perfect, third person common plural, first person common singular
Root: תָּעַב  
Sense: to abhor, be abominable, do abominably.
שַׂלְמוֹתָֽי  my  own  clothes 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: שַׂלְמָה  
Sense: garment, outer garment, wrapper, mantle.

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