Job 32:3

32:3 With Job’s ¹  three friends he was also angry, because they could not find ²  an answer, and so declared Job guilty. ³ 

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¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Job) has been specified in the translation to indicate whose friends they were.

² tn The perfect verb should be given the category of potential perfect here.

³ 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.