21:14 So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us!
We do not want to 1 know your ways. 2
37:19 Tell us what we should 3 say to him.
We cannot prepare a case 4
because of the darkness.
1 tn The absence of the preposition before the complement adds greater vividness to the statement: “and knowing your ways – we do not desire.”
2 sn Contrast Ps 25:4, which affirms that walking in God’s ways means to obey God’s will – the Torah.
3 tn The imperfect verb here carries the obligatory nuance, “what we should say?”
4 tn The verb means “to arrange; to set in order.” From the context the idea of a legal case is included.