What Does Job 25:3 Mean in the King James?
Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
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 verse sets God’s uncountable armies beside a light that rises on everyone: no one is beyond its reach.
THE MEANING
God’s hosts cannot be numbered, and his light rises over every person. You are included in that reach; no one stands outside it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that you could be the one person beyond the reach of God’s light.
THE ROOT
אוֹרוֹ
ʾôrô
GROWS FROM
אור
ʾ-w-r
Light; to shine or give light.
The Hebrew root holds the light itself and the act of shining together. What rises here is not merely a distant brightness: it is illumination that reaches everyone.
ALSO GROWS
hēʾîr: To give light, illuminate.
הֵאִיר
The verb from this root shows that the light is active: it shines out and makes visible.
māʾôr: A light-bearing body or lamp.
מָאוֹר
This branch connects the light to a source that bears and gives it.
יָקוּם
yāqûm
GROWS FROM
קום
q-w-m
To rise or stand.
“arise” in this verse is yāqûm. The root holds rising and standing together. The light’s arising is also its standing over the whole human field, with no person excluded.
ALSO GROWS
qûm: To rise, stand, or remain standing.
קוּם
This basic form shows the posture within the verse’s image of light rising.
hēqîm: To raise up or establish.
הֵקִים
This causative branch adds the sense of something being made to stand, reinforcing the light’s enduring reach.
THE PATTERN
God’s light reaches every person and is not blocked by darkness.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.THE THREAD
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.Job’s question leaves no person outside the reach of God’s rising light. Jesus gives that universality a concrete image: the sun rises on both the evil and the good.
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