Discovery BoxJob 1:10 
Context1:10 Have you 1 not made a hedge 2 around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed 3 the work of his hands, and his livestock 4 have increased 5 in the land.
Job 7:21
Context7:21 And why do you not pardon my transgression,
and take away my iniquity?
For now I will lie down in the dust, 6
and you will seek me diligently, 7
but I will be gone.”
Job 32:6
Context32:6 So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up: 8
“I am young, 9 but you are elderly;
that is why I was fearful, 10
and afraid to explain 11 to you what I know.
1 tn The use of the independent personal pronoun here emphasizes the subject of the verb: “Have you not put up a hedge.”
2 tn The verb שׂוּךְ (sukh) means “to hedge or fence up, about” something (BDB 962 s.v. I שׂוּךְ). The original idea seems to have been to surround with a wall of thorns for the purpose of protection (E. Dhorme, Job, 7). The verb is an implied comparison between making a hedge and protecting someone.
3 sn Here the verb “bless” is used in one of its very common meanings. The verb means “to enrich,” often with the sense of enabling or empowering things for growth or fruitfulness. See further C. Westermann, Blessing in the Bible and the Life of the Church (OBT).
4 tn Or “substance.” The herds of livestock may be taken by metonymy of part for whole to represent possessions or prosperity in general.
5 tn The verb פָּרַץ (parats) means “to break through.” It has the sense of abundant increase, as in breaking out, overflowing (see also Gen 30:30 and Exod 1:12).
6 tn The LXX has, “for now I will depart to the earth.”
7 tn The verb שָׁחַר (shakhar) in the Piel has been translated “to seek early in the morning” because of the possible link with the word “dawn.” But the verb more properly means “to seek diligently” (by implication).
8 tn Heb “answered and said.”
9 tn The text has “small in days.”
10 tn The verb זָחַלְתִּי (zakhalti) is found only here in the OT, but it is found in a ninth century Aramaic inscription as well as in Biblical Aramaic. It has the meaning “to be timid” (see H. H. Rowley, Job [NCBC], 208).
11 tn The Piel infinitive with the preposition (מֵחַוֹּת, mekhavvot) means “from explaining.” The phrase is the complement: “explain” what Elihu feared.
