What Does Job 27:11 Mean in the King James?
I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
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 joins divine action to disclosure: God’s hand teaches by bringing what is with the Almighty into the open.
THE MEANING
The reader encounters teaching as something received through God’s hand: what is with the Almighty can be spoken without concealment. The verse joins instruction to disclosure, presenting openness as part of how divine truth is taught.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what is with God must remain inaccessible, or that teaching is complete while withholding it.
THE ROOT
אֶכְחֵד
ekhached
GROWS FROM
כחד
k-ḥ-d
To hide or conceal; in other forms, to cut off or make disappear.
The verb translated “conceal” comes from a root that can also mean cutting off or making something disappear. The verse treats withholding what is with the Almighty as more than silence: it can make that truth absent from view.
ALSO GROWS
nikhchad: be cut off, disappear
נִכְחַד
This form shows the root’s movement from hiding something to its disappearance.
hikhchid: cut off, destroy
הִכְחִיד
This branch gives concealment a sharper edge: what is hidden can be made to vanish from sight.
אֲלַמֶּדְכֶם
alammedkhem
GROWS FROM
למד
l-m-d
To learn; in the intensive form, to teach or train.
The Hebrew root holds learning and teaching together: the one who teaches works from the same root as the one who learns. Here, “I will teach you” is tied to what comes by God’s hand, so instruction is received and passed on rather than privately possessed.
ALSO GROWS
talmid: learner, student, disciple
תַּלְמִיד
A learner bears the same root as the act of teaching, linking instruction with its reception.
melammed: one who teaches, instructor
מְלַמֵּד
This form names the teacher, making explicit the shared root between teaching and learning.
THE PATTERN
What God makes known is carried forward through human speech, from hidden counsel toward open hearing.
The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.THE THREAD
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.“Concealed” here uses the same Hebrew root, כחד (kachad), as “I will not conceal” in Job 27:11. The shared root connects the refusal to hide the Holy One’s words with the refusal to withhold what is with the Almighty.
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