What Does Job 37:17 Mean in the King James?
How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
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 warmth against your body is bound to a change happening across the earth.
THE MEANING
Your garments feel warm as the earth is brought into quiet from the south. You feel the result close to your skin while the process behind it remains a question.
THE ROOT
בְּהַשְׁקִט
behashqit
GROWS FROM
שקט
shaqat
To be quiet, rest, or settle without disturbance.
“quieteth” in this verse is behashqit. The Hebrew uses a causative form of שקט (shaqat, to quiet): the earth is being made still. The same root can describe the earth already at rest, holding the act of quieting and the state that follows together.
ALSO GROWS
sheqet: Quietness, rest
שֶׁקֶט
This noun carries the root’s settled state, showing that quiet is something the earth can enter.
vattishqot: And it is quiet
וַתִּשְׁקֹט
Isaiah uses this form for the whole earth at rest, echoing Job’s image of the earth being quieted.
THE PATTERN
Wind changes are felt as changes in the world’s waters and in human warmth.
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.THE THREAD
The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.Job uses שקט (shaqat, to quiet) as an action upon the earth; Isaiah uses the same root for the whole earth at rest. Together they show the earth moving from being quieted into inhabiting quiet.
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