Job 21:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִרְא֣וּ *עינו **עֵינָ֣יו כִּיד֑וֹ וּמֵחֲמַ֖ת שַׁדַּ֣י יִשְׁתֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

yirʾû ʿênāyw kîdô û-mēḥămat šadday yišteh

Grammar Details

• *yirʾû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they see
• *ʿênāyw*: noun feminine dual construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix (Qere; Ketiv: *ʿênô*) - his eyes
• *kîdô*: noun masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his destruction
• *û-mēḥămat*: conjunctive waw + preposition + noun feminine singular construct - and from wrath of
• *šadday*: noun masculine singular - Almighty
• *yišteh*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he drinks

Word Meanings

• *rāʾâ*: to see/observe/perceive
• *ʿayin*: eye
• *kîd*: destruction/calamity/ruin
• *ḥēmâ*: heat/rage/wrath
• *šadday*: Almighty/All-sufficient (divine name)
• *šātâ*: to drink

Referenced Verses

• Isa 51:17 : 17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
• Rev 14:10 : 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
• Ps 75:8 : 8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red{H8804)}; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out{H8686)} of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out{H8799)}, and drink{H8799)} them.
• Rev 19:15 : 15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
• Job 27:19 : 19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
• Ps 60:3 : 3 Thou hast shewed{H8689)} thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink{H8689)} the wine of astonishment.
• Jer 25:15-16 : 15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
• Jer 51:7 : 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
• Luke 16:23 : 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.