What Does Job 31:15 Mean in the King James?
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
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 same Maker formed both lives in the womb, so no human life begins beneath another.
THE MEANING
Your life and the life of the person before you share one origin: the same Maker formed both in the womb. The other person’s humanity is no lesser work; the same act of making holds you both.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that another person’s life is a lesser kind of making than your own.
THE ROOT
וַיְכֻנֶּנּוּ
vaykhonennu
GROWS FROM
כון
כּוּן (kun) means to be firm or established; in this form, to establish, prepare, or set in place.
“Fashion” carries the sense of establishing or setting in place. The verse says one Maker establishes “us,” holding both lives within the same act of forming.
ALSO GROWS
kun: To stand firm or be established.
כּוּן
This root connects fashioning with giving something a settled place.
makon: A fixed place or dwelling.
מָכוֹן
The same root can name a place where something is set, adding the sense of being given a place to belong.
nakhon: Something established, ready, or prepared.
נָכוֹן
This branch echoes the verse’s picture of life as deliberately established in the womb.
עֹשֵׂנִי
oseni
GROWS FROM
עשה
עָשָׂה (asah) means to do or make.
The forms עֹשֵׂנִי (oseni, makes me) and עָשָׂהוּ (asahu, made him) come from the same root עשה (asah, do or make). The people change, but the making is shared; the next clause gathers them into “us.”
ALSO GROWS
ma'aseh: An act, work, or thing made.
מַעֲשֶׂה
This branch names the work that comes from making, linking the verse’s two lives to one act of creation.
oseh: A person who performs or makes something.
עֹשֶׂה
The verse’s shared Maker is named through the same root as the act of making itself.
THE PATTERN
Every human distinction begins inside a shared act of making by one source.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;THE THREAD
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?Job’s אֶחָד (echad, one) and Malachi’s אֶחָד (echad, one) link both passages through the same word for one. Malachi makes the shared origin a direct question about how one person treats another.
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