The Meaning of Job 27:3 Explained

Job 27:3

KJV: All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

YLT: For all the while my breath is in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.

Darby: All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of +God is in my nostrils,

ASV: (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

KJV Reverse Interlinear

All the while  my breath  [is] in me, and the spirit  of God  [is] in my nostrils; 

What does Job 27:3 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 27:3 mean?

the while my breath as long as and my breath [is] in me and the breath of God in my nostrils
כִּֽי־ כָל־ ע֣וֹד נִשְׁמָתִ֣י בִ֑י וְר֖וּחַ אֱל֣וֹהַּ בְּאַפִּֽי

כִּֽי־  the  while 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
כָל־  my  breath 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
ע֣וֹד  as  long  as 
Parse: Adverb
Root: עֹוד  
Sense: a going round, continuance adv.
נִשְׁמָתִ֣י  and  my  breath  [is] 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: נְשָׁמָה  
Sense: breath, spirit.
בִ֑י  in  me 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
וְר֖וּחַ  and  the  breath 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, common singular construct
Root: רוּחַ  
Sense: wind, breath, mind, spirit.
אֱל֣וֹהַּ  of  God 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: אֱלֹוהַּ  
Sense: God.
בְּאַפִּֽי  in  my  nostrils 
Parse: Preposition, Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: אַף 
Sense: nostril, nose, face.

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