28:8 Proud beasts 1 have not set foot on it,
and no lion has passed along it.
34:8 He goes about 2 in company 3 with evildoers,
he goes along 4 with wicked men. 5
1 tn Heb “the sons of pride.” In Job 41:26 the expression refers to carnivorous wild beasts.
2 tn The perfect verb with the vav (ו) consecutive carries the sequence forward from the last description.
3 tn The word חֶבְרַה (khevrah, “company”) is a hapax legomenon. But its meaning is clear enough from the connections to related words and this context as well.
4 tn The infinitive construct with the ל (lamed) preposition may continue the clause with the finite verb (see GKC 351 §114.p).
5 tn Heb “men of wickedness”; the genitive is attributive (= “wicked men”).