4:5 But now the same thing 1 comes to you,
and you are discouraged; 2
it strikes you,
and you are terrified. 3
14:15 You will call 4 and I 5 – I will answer you;
you will long for 6 the creature you have made. 7
1 tn The sentence has no subject, but the context demands that the subject be the same kind of trouble that has come upon people that Job has helped.
2 tn This is the same verb used in v. 2, meaning “to be exhausted” or “impatient.” Here with the vav (ו) consecutive the verb describes Job’s state of mind that is a consequence of the trouble coming on him. In this sentence the form is given a present tense translation (see GKC 329 §111.t).
3 tn This final verb in the verse is vivid; it means “to terrify, dismay” (here the Niphal preterite). Job will go on to speak about all the terrors that come on him.
4 sn The idea would be that God would sometime in the future call Job into his fellowship again when he longed for the work of his hands (cf. Job 10:3).
5 tn The independent personal pronoun is emphatic, as if to say, “and I on my part will answer.”
6 tn The word כָּסַף (kasaf) originally meant “to turn pale.” It expresses the sentiment that causes pallor of face, and so is used for desire ardently, covet. The object of the desire is always introduced with the ל (lamed) preposition (see E. Dhorme, Job, 202).
7 tn Heb “long for the work of your hands.”