Job 22:8
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In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.

But as

Job 29:7-17 When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair? . . .

Job 31:34 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.

1 Kings 21:11-15 And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt with him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them; . . .

Psalm 12:8 The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.

Micah 7:3 The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

mighty man.

Job 13:8 Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
7Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry. 8In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.…
Cross References
Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?

Job 12:19
He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles.

Isaiah 3:3
The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance, and the counsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in eloquent speech.

Isaiah 9:15
The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Lexicon
while the land
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

belonged to a mighty
זְ֭רוֹעַ (zə·rō·w·a‘)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2220: The arm, the foreleg, force

man,
וְאִ֣ישׁ (wə·’îš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

and a man
וּנְשׂ֥וּא (ū·nə·śū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

of honor
פָ֝נִ֗ים (p̄ā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

lived
יֵ֣שֶׁב (yê·šeḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

on it.
בָּֽהּ׃ (bāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew


Additional Translations
while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelled in it.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

And thou hast accepted the persons of some; and thou hast established those that were already settled on the earth.

But the powerful man, he had the land; and the man of high rank dwelt in it.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man, he dwelt in it.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

As to the man of arm -- he hath the earth, And the accepted of face -- he dwelleth in it.
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