What Does Job 5:24 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
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
Peace is the wholeness of a dwelling that can be fully attended, down to the life lived inside it.
THE MEANING
Your dwelling is held in wholeness, and you come to know it by attending to it closely. The verse joins that attentive presence to a life that does not miss its way.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Peace requires looking away from the real condition of the home and life you inhabit.
THE ROOT
שָׁלוֹם
shalom
GROWS FROM
שלם
š-l-m
To be whole, complete, or sound.
“peace” in this verse is shalom. The Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness) holds more than quiet or absence of conflict. Joined to “thy tabernacle,” it places wholeness in the actual dwelling, where life is made sound.
ALSO GROWS
shalem: Whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This adjective makes the root’s sense of completeness audible within the word for peace.
shillem: Repay, make good
שִׁלֵּם
The same root can describe making good what is owed, linking wholeness with restoration.
וּפָקַדְתָּ
u-faqadta from paqad
GROWS FROM
פקד
p-q-d
To attend to, take account of, or appoint.
The verb translated “visit” carries the sense of attending to and taking account. Its branches suggest that the dwelling is fully regarded and cared for, not merely passed by.
ALSO GROWS
paqid: An appointed officer or overseer
פָּקִיד
This branch shows the root’s link between attending and being responsible for what is under one’s care.
pequddah: Oversight, charge, or appointment
פְּקֻדָּה
The dwelling is met with attention that takes its condition into account.
תֶּחֱטָא
teḥeṭāʾ from ḥāṭāʾ
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥ-ṭ-ʾ
To miss, fail, or go astray.
Alongside the familiar moral force of “sin,” חטא (ḥāṭāʾ, to miss) carries the sense of failing to reach the mark. Set beside שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness), the verse pictures a dwelling where life no longer misses its way.
ALSO GROWS
chet: A miss, fault, or failure
חֵטְא
This noun makes the sense of missing explicit in the verse’s closing image.
chatta’t: Missing or sin; in sacrificial language, an offering for the missing
חַטָּאת
The same root names both the missing and a response directed toward it.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness takes form in the conditions and presence of a dwelling.
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.THE THREAD
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;Job’s נָוְךָ (navekha, “your dwelling”) and Isaiah’s נָוֶה (naveh, “habitation”) echo the same root, נוה (n-w-h, to dwell). Isaiah also places שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness) in that dwelling, showing peace as a condition of the lived-in home.
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