What Does Job 27:11 Mean?
I point you by the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I do not hide.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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King James wording
King James Version
I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.THE KEY
The verse joins divine action to disclosure: God’s hand teaches by bringing what is with the Almighty into the open.
THE MEANING
The reader encounters teaching as something received through God’s hand: what is with the Almighty can be spoken without concealment. The verse joins instruction to disclosure, presenting openness as part of how divine truth is taught.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what is with God must remain inaccessible, or that teaching is complete while withholding it.
THE ROOT
אֶכְחֵד
ekhached
GROWS FROM
כחד
k-ḥ-d
To hide or conceal; in other forms, to cut off or make disappear.
“hide” in this verse is ekhached. The verb translated “conceal” comes from a root that can also mean cutting off or making something disappear. The verse treats withholding what is with the Almighty as more than silence: it can make that truth absent from view.
ALSO GROWS
nikhchad: be cut off, disappear
נִכְחַד
This form shows the root’s movement from hiding something to its disappearance.
hikhchid: cut off, destroy
הִכְחִיד
This branch gives concealment a sharper edge: what is hidden can be made to vanish from sight.
אֲלַמֶּדְכֶם
alammedkhem
GROWS FROM
למד
l-m-d
To learn; in the intensive form, to teach or train.
“point” in this verse is alammedkhem. The Hebrew root holds learning and teaching together: the one who teaches works from the same root as the one who learns. Here, “I will teach you” is tied to what comes by God’s hand, so instruction is received and passed on rather than privately possessed.
ALSO GROWS
talmid: learner, student, disciple
תַּלְמִיד
A learner bears the same root as the act of teaching, linking instruction with its reception.
melammed: one who teaches, instructor
מְלַמֵּד
This form names the teacher, making explicit the shared root between teaching and learning.
THE PATTERN
What God makes known is carried forward through human speech, from hidden counsel toward open hearing.
The intimate circle of the LORD is with those in awe of him, and he makes his covenant known to them.For the Lord GOD does nothing, unless he uncovers his secret to his servants the prophets.What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear into your ear, proclaim upon the rooftops.THE THREAD
Then comfort would again be mine, and I would leap in pain; let him not spare, for I have not concealed the words of the Set-Apart One.“Concealed” here uses the same Hebrew root, כחד (kachad), as “I will not conceal” in Job 27:11. The shared root connects the refusal to hide the Holy One’s words with the refusal to withhold what is with the Almighty.
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