What Does Job 11:15 Mean?
For then you lift your face without blemish; you are founded, and you do not fear.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:THE KEY
The Hebrew verb behind “lift up” also means “bear,” so the raised face carries the image of a burden being lifted away.
THE MEANING
The verse pictures you with an unblemished face, standing firm and no longer ruled by fear. Its “for then” keeps that freedom conditional: openness and steadiness follow the removal of what stains.
THE ROOT
תִּשָּׂא
tissa
GROWS FROM
נשא
nasa
To lift, carry, or bear.
“lift” in this verse is tissa. The face rises through the same verb that can describe bearing what weighs on a person. Hebrew holds lifting and carrying together, joining an unlowered face with the removal of its burden.
ALSO GROWS
nasa panim: Lift the face; show favor or receive someone.
נָשָׂא פָּנִים
The raised face can signal being received openly, so the image reaches beyond posture to unhidden presence.
nose avon: Bear or forgive crookedness.
נֹשֵׂא עָוֹן
The same root that lifts the face can bear what weighs on it, linking openness with what is carried away.
מֻצָּק
mutsaq
GROWS FROM
יצק
yatsaq
To pour or cast.
The word rendered “stedfast” is related to pouring and casting: firmness carries the image of something set into solid form. The verse pictures the person not only as free from a blemish, but as able to hold their ground.
ALSO GROWS
yatsaq: Pour or cast.
יָצַק
This is the root action behind the word for being firm, giving steadfastness the image of something poured and set.
mutsaq: Firm or solid.
מוּצָק
This is the form used in the verse: steadiness pictured as solidity.
THE PATTERN
When shame no longer holds a person down, confidence becomes visible in an unlowered face and an uncondemning heart.
They gaze upon him and flow with light, and their faces are never exposed.Beloved, if our heart does not know against us, we have open speech toward God.THE THREAD
For then you delight in the Almighty, and you lift your face to God.This verse repeats the Hebrew verb נשא (nasa, “lift” or “bear”) with פָּנִים (panim, “face” or “presence”) in the phrase “lift up thy face unto God.” The echo opens the spotless face as more than an unmarked surface: it is a presence able to turn openly toward God.
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