5:27 Look, we have investigated this, so it is true.
Hear it, 1 and apply it for your own 2 good.” 3
22:27 You will pray to him and he will hear you,
and you will fulfill your vows to him. 4
35:13 Surely it is an empty cry 5 – God does not hear it;
the Almighty does not take notice of it.
1 tn To make a better parallelism, some commentators have replaced the imperative with another finite verb, “we have found it.”
2 tn The preposition with the suffix (referred to as the ethical dative) strengthens the imperative. An emphatic personal pronoun also precedes the imperative. The resulting force would be something like “and you had better apply it for your own good!”
3 sn With this the speech by Eliphaz comes to a close. His two mistakes with it are: (1) that the tone was too cold and (2) the argument did not fit Job’s case (see further, A. B. Davidson, Job, 42).
4 tn The words “to him” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.
5 tn Heb “surely – vanity, he does not hear.” The cry is an empty cry, not a prayer to God. Dhorme translates it, “It is a pure waste of words.”