16:22 For the years that lie ahead are few, 1
and then I will go on the way of no return. 2
36:11 If they obey and serve him,
they live out their days in prosperity
and their years in pleasantness. 3
42:16 After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
1 tn The expression is “years of number,” meaning that they can be counted, and so “the years are few.” The verb simply means “comes” or “lie ahead.”
2 tn The verbal expression “I will not return” serves here to modify the journey that he will take. It is “the road [of] I will not return.”
3 tc Some commentators delete this last line for metrical considerations. But there is no textual evidence for the deletion; it is simply the attempt by some to make the meter rigid.