Job 27:5

27:5 I will never 1  declare that you three 2  are in the right;

until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

Job 32:3

32:3 With Job’s 3  three friends he was also angry, because they could not find 4  an answer, and so declared Job guilty. 5 

1 tn The text uses חָלִילָה לִּי (khalilah li) meaning “far be it from me,” or more strongly, something akin to “sacrilege.”

2 tn In the Hebrew text “you” is plural – a reference to Eliphaz, Zophar, and Bildad. To make this clear, “three” is supplied in the translation.

3 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Job) has been specified in the translation to indicate whose friends they were.

4 tn The perfect verb should be given the category of potential perfect here.

5 tc This is one of the eighteen “corrections of the scribes” (tiqqune sopherim); it originally read, “and they declared God [in the wrong].” The thought was that in abandoning the debate they had conceded Job’s point.