What Does Job 8:22 Mean in the King James?
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
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
Shame becomes the garment of those who hate you, while the wicked person’s dwelling ends in absence.
THE MEANING
Hatred directed at you does not decide the final covering: those who hate you are shown wearing shame. The wicked person’s dwelling does not last; what seems settled can disappear.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that your haters’ hostility proves they are secure, or that their dwelling will last simply because it looks established.
THE ROOT
יִלְבְּשׁוּ
yilbešu
GROWS FROM
לבש
לבש (l-b-sh; lavash) means to clothe or wear.
“clothed” in this verse is yilbešu. The Hebrew verb presents shame as something the haters wear. It becomes their visible covering, not merely a feeling hidden inside them.
ALSO GROWS
levush: Garment or clothing
לְבוּשׁ
This noun shares the root consonants ל־ב־ש and makes explicit the garment image behind “clothed.”
malbush: Garment or clothing
מַלְבּוּשׁ
This clothing word also carries the root consonants ל־ב־ש, connecting the action of wearing to what is worn.
שֹׂנְאֶיךָ
sone'ekha
GROWS FROM
שנא
שנא (sh-n-ʾ; sane) means to hate or regard with hostility.
“hate” in this verse is sone'ekha. The verse names the people by their hostility toward you, then shows that hostility ending in shame on them. The outcome attaches to the haters themselves.
ALSO GROWS
sane: To hate
שָׂנֵא
This verb shares the root consonants ש־נ־א and names the hostility attributed to the people in the verse.
sin'ah: Hatred
שִׂנְאָה
This noun shares the root consonants ש־נ־א, expressing the same hostility as a condition or force.
THE PATTERN
What lacks a sound foundation cannot keep its house, and hostility directed outward can return as visible shame.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.THE THREAD
And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.The Hebrew verb הַלְבֵּשׁ (halbeš; clothe) uses the same root לבש (l-b-sh; clothe or wear) as Job’s יִלְבְּשׁוּ (yilbešu; they will wear). Job shows shame as a covering; Zechariah shows filthy garments taken away and another raiment put on.
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