What Does Job 19:4 Mean in the King James?
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The word rendered “remaineth” pictures the error lodging with the speaker, making this a statement of personal ownership.
THE MEANING
If you have strayed, the error stays with you, close to your own life and account. The verse leaves that “if” open: it names where an error belongs without making someone else’s charge proof.
THE ROOT
תָּלִין
tālin
GROWS FROM
לון
lun
To lodge or stay overnight.
The verb translated “remaineth” pictures the error as a guest staying with the speaker. This makes the line concrete and personal: the error is with the one who names it.
ALSO GROWS
lin: To lodge or spend the night.
לִין
This verb from the same root makes the verse’s “remaineth” carry the sense of lodging with the speaker.
malon: A lodging place.
מָלוֹן
This noun carries the root into a place of staying, giving the image a concrete shape.
שָׁגִיתִי
shāgîtî
GROWS FROM
שגה
shagah
To wander from the way, stray, or err.
“erred” in this verse is shāgîtî. The root carries the movement of wandering off course, and the word for error grows from the same seed. Together they picture a specific straying that the speaker owns.
ALSO GROWS
mishgeh: An error or mistake.
מִשְׁגֶּה
This noun shares the root of “I have erred” and gives the wandering a name.
shegagah: An inadvertent error.
שְׁגָגָה
This branch shows how the root can name a misstep without turning it into the person’s whole nature.
THE PATTERN
Responsibility stays personal: each person bears their own burden and answers for their own account.
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.For every man shall bear his own burden.So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.THE THREAD
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.Job’s error is said to “lodge” with him, and the same Hebrew root describes weeping lodging through the night here. The psalm makes the image vivid: weeping spends the night, then morning comes.
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