KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 37:19–21
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Job 37:19
19Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
19Teach vs what we shall say vnto him; for we cannot order our speach by reason of darknes.
Job 37:20
20Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
20Shall it bee told him that I speake? if a man speake, surely he shalbe swallowed vp.
Job 37:21
21And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
21And nowe men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth and cleanseth them.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 37:19
To instruct, inform, train, show, counsel, or communicate knowledge or doctrine.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Is unable to; is not able to.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
An arrangement, rank, course, command, or appointed manner; also to arrange, direct, or command.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Spoken words; discourse, language, or an address.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A ground or cause; understanding or judgment; to think, discuss, or argue.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Absence of light; also obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Job 37:20
To tell: to say, relate, inform, count, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To utter words; to say, declare, address, or communicate by speech.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Certainly, truly, firmly, or without doubt.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Job 37:21
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Visible masses of condensed vapour in the sky; also figures of covering, multitude, or obscurity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Breath; power of respiration. Air in motion with any degree of velocity, indefinitely; a current of air.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Passes: goes by, through, over, or beyond; happens, ceases, or is transferred, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 19
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Open the full verse study12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
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Open the full verse study2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
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Open the full verse study3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
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Open the full verse study3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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Open the full verse study6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
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Open the full verse study14Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
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Open the full verse study20Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
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Open the full verse study2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
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Open the full verse study3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
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Open the full verse study2Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
3I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
4Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
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Open the full verse study6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
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Open the full verse study16When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
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Open the full verse study22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
From verse 20
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Open the full verse study7Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
8It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
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Open the full verse study3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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Open the full verse study36But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
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Open the full verse study4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
From verse 21
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Open the full verse study9He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
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Open the full verse study32With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
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Open the full verse study25Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
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