The Meaning of Job 13:11 Explained

Job 13:11

KJV: Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

YLT: Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?

Darby: Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?

ASV: Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Shall not his excellency  make you afraid?  and his dread  fall  upon you? 

What does Job 13:11 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 13:11 mean?

Will not His excellence make afraid you and the dread of Him fall upon you
הֲלֹ֣א שְׂ֭אֵתוֹ ؟ תְּבַעֵ֣ת אֶתְכֶ֑ם וּ֝פַחְדּ֗וֹ יִפֹּ֥ל עֲלֵיכֶֽם

הֲלֹ֣א  Will  not 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
שְׂ֭אֵתוֹ  His  excellence 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: שְׂאֵת 
Sense: elevation, exaltation, dignity, swelling, uprising.
؟ תְּבַעֵ֣ת  make  afraid 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: בָּעַת  
Sense: to terrify, startle, fall upon, dismay, be overtaken by sudden terror.
וּ֝פַחְדּ֗וֹ  and  the  dread  of  Him 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: פַּחַד  
Sense: terror, dread.
יִפֹּ֥ל  fall 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: נָפַל  
Sense: to fall, lie, be cast down, fail.
עֲלֵיכֶֽם  upon  you 
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine plural
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.