What Does Job 6:10 Mean?
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.
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
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.THE KEY
The verse locates comfort not in being spared, but in having left the Holy One’s words unconcealed.
THE MEANING
Your anguish does not close off rest: the verse locates comfort in the fact that the Set-Apart One’s words have not been concealed. The speaker can name that comfort while asking not to be spared from sorrow.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Comfort does not require the pain to stop; the verse places rest beside sorrow and a plea not to be spared.
THE ROOT
כִּחַדְתִּי
kiḥadtî
GROWS FROM
כחד
k-ḥ-d
To hide or conceal, to keep from view.
The verse gives its reason for comfort as an unhidden word: the speaker has not concealed the sayings of the Set-Apart One. Concealment is what could be withheld from sight or speech, so sorrow does not erase the fact of open disclosure.
ALSO GROWS
kiḥadtî: I concealed or hid.
כִּחַדְתִּי
Psalm 40:10 uses the same form for what its speaker refuses to hide, linking open speech about God with Job’s unhidden words.
təḵaḥēd: Conceal, hide.
תְּכַחֵד
In Joshua 7:19, the command “hide it not from me” uses this root for what is brought into open speech.
תְּנוּחָתִי
tenuḥātî
GROWS FROM
נוח
n-w-ḥ
To settle, rest, or come to rest.
The Hebrew form means “my rest,” giving comfort a shade of settled rest. Relief is held within sorrow here, without any claim that the pain has ended.
ALSO GROWS
nûaḥ: To rest or settle.
נוּחַ
This verb names the root sense beneath the speaker’s “my rest.”
menûḥāh: Rest, a resting place.
מְנוּחָה
The related noun makes rest a place or state that can be named even while sorrow remains.
קָדוֹשׁ
qādôš
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
To set apart as distinct or sacred.
“Holy One” names the source of the words as the Set-Apart One. The speaker’s comfort is bound to the nature of the one whose words remain unconcealed.
ALSO GROWS
qōdeš: Set-apartness, sacredness.
קֹדֶשׁ
This noun carries the same quality named in the title “Holy One.”
miqdāš: Sanctuary, set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
The related word for sanctuary shows the root describing what is set apart, as well as the one who is set apart.
THE PATTERN
Words received from God remain speakable under pressure, even where silence or concealment is possible.
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.I do not cover your alignment within my heart. I speak your steadiness and your deliverance. I do not hide your faithful love and your truth from the great assembly.For we cannot keep from speaking what we have perceived and heard.THE THREAD
I do not cover your alignment within my heart. I speak your steadiness and your deliverance. I do not hide your faithful love and your truth from the great assembly.Psalm 40:10 uses the same Hebrew root, כחד (k-ḥ-d), meaning “to hide or conceal,” for what its speaker does not conceal. The shared verb links Job’s comfort to speech that remains open even while sorrow is still present.
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