19:19 All my closest friends 1 detest me;
and those whom 2 I love have turned against me. 3
19:21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me,
for the hand of God has struck me.
1 tn Heb “men of my confidence,” or “men of my council,” i.e., intimate friends, confidants.
2 tn The pronoun זֶה (zeh) functions here in the place of a nominative (see GKC 447 §138.h).
3 tn T. Penar translates this “turn away from me” (“Job 19,19 in the Light of Ben Sira 6,11,” Bib 48 [1967]: 293-95).