What Does Job 8:10 Mean?
Shall they not point you, say to you, and bring words out of their heart?
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
Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?THE KEY
The Hebrew word for “teach” shares its root with “instruction,” so wisdom spoken from the heart is also a way being pointed out.
THE MEANING
This verse presents a voice that can still reach you: its teaching points a direction, and its words come from the heart. Wisdom here moves through a living exchange, one heart gives words, and another can receive them.
THE ROOT
יוֹרוּךָ
yôrûkā
GROWS FROM
ירה
y-r-h
To point or direct; also to instruct, with the image of casting or shooting.
“point you” in this verse is yôrûkā. The Hebrew verb rendered “teach” grows from a root of pointing or directing. תּוֹרָה (torah), “instruction,” grows from the same seed: teaching is a direction offered, not merely information passed along.
ALSO GROWS
torah: Instruction.
תּוֹרָה
It shares the root behind “teach,” revealing instruction as a way being pointed out.
moreh: Teacher; one who instructs.
מוֹרֶה
The teacher is the one who directs another through words.
יוֹצִיאוּ
yôtsîʾû
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ts-ʾ
To go out, emerge, or come forth.
“bring out” in this verse is yôtsîʾû. The verb pictures words being brought forth from an inner source. Wisdom becomes audible as what the heart gives form to and brings into speech.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out or emerge.
יָצָא
The same root makes speech an emergence from within.
motsa: What proceeds or comes forth; an utterance.
מוֹצָא
This branch can describe what proceeds from the lips, echoing the words that come from the heart.
THE PATTERN
Wisdom passes between people as heart-shaped words that point a way.
He pointed me, and said to me, Let your heart grasp my words; guard my commands, and live.My mouth speaks wisdom, and the murmur of my heart sorts out what lies between.A good human brings out good from the good treasure of the heart, and an evil human brings out evil from the evil treasure of the heart, for from the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks.THE THREAD
Hear and respond, my son, to the straightening of your father, and do not let go of your mother's instruction.The Hebrew verb for “teach” in Job comes from יָרָה (yarah), the root that also gives תּוֹרָה (torah), “instruction.” Proverbs uses torah for the mother’s teaching, joining spoken instruction and teaching from the heart through one shared root.
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