What Does Job 35:4 Mean in the King James?
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
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 translated “answer” is built on the motion of returning: a reply is speech coming back to meet you.
THE MEANING
You receive an answer here, and the people beside you are included in its reach. The verse holds the reply within shared speech: it meets you together with your companions.
THE ROOT
אֲשִׁיבְךָ
ashivkha
GROWS FROM
שׁוּב
shuv
Turn, return; in a causative form, bring back or restore.
“answer” in this verse is ashivkha. The verb is a causative form of שׁוּב (shuv), “turn, return,” carrying the sense of bringing words back to someone. Hebrew makes answering a movement of return: speech comes back across the relationship, and the response reaches the companions beside you too.
ALSO GROWS
shuv: Turn; return.
שׁוּב
This is the seed beneath “answer”: the reply turns back toward the person who receives it.
hēshīv: Bring back; restore; answer.
הֵשִׁיב
This causative form shows how a return becomes a response addressed to someone.
teshuvah: Return; response or answer.
תְּשׁוּבָה
The same root holds both turning back and giving a reply together.
THE PATTERN
Speech and relationship move through return: words come back with effect, and hearts turn toward one another.
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.THE THREAD
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.The verb translated “answer” comes from שׁוּב (shuv), “turn, return”; Isaiah uses that same root for the word that “shall not return unto me void.” In both verses, speech has a path back, and its return carries what it accomplishes.
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