Job 15:17

15:17 “I will explain to you;

listen to me,

and what ¹  I have seen, I will declare, ² 

Job 32:10

32:10 Therefore I say, ‘Listen ³  to me.

I, even I, will explain what I know.’

Job 32:17

32:17 I too will answer my part,

I too will explain what I know.

Job 6:24

No Sin Discovered

6:24 “Teach ⁴  me and I, for my part, ⁵  will be silent;

explain to me ⁶  how I have been mistaken. ⁷ 

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¹ tn The demonstrative pronoun is used here as a nominative, to introduce an independent relative clause (see GKC 447 §138.h).

² tn Here the vav (ו) apodosis follows with the cohortative (see GKC 458 §143.d).

³ tc In most Hebrew mss this imperative is singular, and so addressed to Job. But two Hebrew mss and the versions have the plural. Elihu was probably addressing all of them.

⁴ tn The verb “teach” or “instruct” is the Hiphil הוֹרוּנִי (horuni), from the verb יָרָה (yarah); the basic idea of “point, direct” lies behind this meaning. The verb is cognate to the noun תּוֹרָה (torah, “instruction, teaching, law”).

⁵ tn The independent personal pronoun makes the subject of the verb emphatic: “and I will be silent.”

⁶ tn The verb is הָבִינוּ (havinu, “to cause someone to understand”); with the ל (lamed) following, it has the sense of “explain to me.”

⁷ tn The verb שָׁגָה (shagah) has the sense of “wandering, getting lost, being mistaken.”