Job 28:8

28:8 Proud beasts ¹  have not set foot on it,

and no lion has passed along it.

Job 31:5

31:5 If ²  I have walked in falsehood,

and if ³  my foot has hastened ⁴  to deceit –

Job 39:15

39:15 She forgets that a foot might crush them,

or that a wild animal ⁵  might trample them.

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¹ tn Heb “the sons of pride.” In Job 41:26 the expression refers to carnivorous wild beasts.

² tn The normal approach is to take this as the protasis, and then have it resumed in v. 7 after a parenthesis in v. 6. But some take v. 6 as the apodosis and a new protasis in v. 7.

³ tn The “if” is understood by the use of the consecutive verb.

⁴ sn The verbs “walk” and “hasten” (referring in the verse to the foot) are used metaphorically for the manner of life Job lived.

⁵ tn Heb “an animal of the field.”