What Does Job 32:10 Mean?
So I said, Hear and respond to me. I also will show what I know.
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
Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.THE KEY
The word rendered “opinion” is “my knowledge,” so the verse presents speech as knowing placed before another person’s hearing.
THE MEANING
You are placed first in the role of hearer, then meet a claim brought into the open as the speaker’s knowing. The verse holds listening and expression together: what is said is offered where it can be received and weighed.
THE ROOT
דֵּעִי
deʿi
GROWS FROM
ידע
To know, recognize, or perceive.
“what I know” in this verse is deʿi. The Hebrew word carries the sense of “my knowledge,” from the root for knowing and perceiving. Speech here is presented as something known and made available to another person’s hearing.
ALSO GROWS
yada: Know, recognize, perceive.
יָדַע
This verb is the root beneath “my knowledge,” tying the speaker’s words to knowing and perception.
daʿat: Knowledge, understanding.
דַּעַת
This noun from the same root appears in Job 33:3, where knowledge is uttered clearly.
שִׁמְעוּ
shimʿu
GROWS FROM
שמע
To hear, listen, or heed.
“Hear and respond” in this verse is shimʿu. The word asks for more than sound to reach the ear: it carries the sense of listening with attention. The verse sets that listening beside the speaker’s “knowing,” bringing hearing and expression into one exchange.
ALSO GROWS
shemuʿah: A report or news, something heard.
שְׁמוּעָה
This branch shows hearing becoming something received and carried onward.
Shimʿon: Simeon, a name linked with “he has heard.”
שִׁמְעוֹן
In Genesis 29:33 the name marks that the LORD has heard; the same root makes hearing part of a name’s nature.
THE PATTERN
Hearing is the threshold for speech that claims to know.
The one who returns a word before he hears it, folly and shame are his.Know this, my beloved brothers. Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to swell.THE THREAD
My words come from the straightness of my heart, and my lips speak what they know, clearly.“Opinion” in Job 32:10 and “knowledge” here belong to the same ידע (yada) root family. Job 33:3 opens that knowing further: it comes into view through words and is uttered clearly.
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