What Does Job 32:17 Mean in the King James?
I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
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 opinion here is a portion of knowing brought into view.
THE MEANING
You speak from a particular share of what you know, and the verse treats that share as something you can bring into view. Your words disclose your present understanding, personal and distinct.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that your words need to carry total certainty to have a place: the verse names them as “my part” and “my knowledge.”
THE ROOT
חֶלְקִי
chelqi
GROWS FROM
חלק
ḥ-l-q
to divide, apportion, or share
“My part” is literally a portion: a share within something larger. The root lets you hear Job’s answer as a distinct portion brought into view.
ALSO GROWS
ḥalaq: to divide or apportion
חָלַק
The act of dividing produces shares, giving “my part” the sense of a portion within a whole.
chelqah: a portion or plot of land
חֶלְקָה
A plot is a bounded share of ground, echoing the verse’s language of a particular part.
דֵּעִי
deʿi
GROWS FROM
ידע
to know, recognize, or perceive
The word translated “opinion” is “my knowledge.” Its root carries knowing and perceiving, so Job presents what he will show as understanding he possesses and can disclose.
ALSO GROWS
daʿat: knowledge or understanding
דַּעַת
This noun comes from the same root and makes the knowing inside “my opinion” explicit.
hodiʿa: to make known or inform
הוֹדִיעַ
This causative form turns knowing outward into disclosure, matching the verse’s movement from knowledge to showing it.
THE PATTERN
A person’s distinct share of understanding becomes useful when it is spoken into the whole.
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;THE THREAD
The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.Job calls his words his חֶלֶק (chelqi, portion), and this psalm uses the same root for the portion of an inheritance. The shared root opens “my part” as a share within something larger.
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