Job 34:8

34:8 He goes about in company with evildoers,

he goes along with wicked men.

Job 34:22

34:22 There is no darkness, and no deep darkness,

where evildoers can hide themselves.


tn The perfect verb with the vav (ו) consecutive carries the sequence forward from the last description.

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.

tn The infinitive construct with the ל (lamed) preposition may continue the clause with the finite verb (see GKC 351 §114.p).

tn Heb “men of wickedness”; the genitive is attributive (= “wicked men”).

tn The construction of this colon uses the Niphal infinitive construct from סָתַר (satar, “to be hidden; to hide”). The resumptive adverb makes this a relative clause in its usage: “where the evildoers can hide themselves.”