Job 20:8

20:8 Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, ¹ 

and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

Job 33:24

33:24 and if ²  God ³  is gracious to him and says,

‘Spare ⁴  him from going down

to the place of corruption,

I have found a ransom for him,’ ⁵ 

Job 42:15

42:15 Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.

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¹ tn Heb “and they do not find him.” The verb has no expressed subject, and so here is equivalent to a passive. The clause itself is taken adverbially in the sentence.

² tn This verse seems to continue the protasis begun in the last verse, with the apodosis coming in the next verse.

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tc The verb is either taken as an anomalous form of פָּדַע (pada’, “to rescue; to redeem,” or “to exempt him”), or it is emended to some similar word, like פָּרַע (para’, “to let loose,” so Wright).

⁵ sn This verse and v. 28 should be compared with Ps 49:7-9, 15 (8-10, 16 HT) where the same basic vocabulary and concepts are employed.