Job 28:8
Context28:8 Proud beasts 1 have not set foot on it,
and no lion has passed along it.
Job 31:5
Context31:5 If 2 I have walked in falsehood,
and if 3 my foot has hastened 4 to deceit –
Job 39:15
Context39:15 She forgets that a foot might crush them,
or that a wild animal 5 might trample them.
1 tn Heb “the sons of pride.” In Job 41:26 the expression refers to carnivorous wild beasts.
2 tn The normal approach is to take this as the protasis, and then have it resumed in v. 7 after a parenthesis in v. 6. But some take v. 6 as the apodosis and a new protasis in v. 7.
3 tn The “if” is understood by the use of the consecutive verb.
4 sn The verbs “walk” and “hasten” (referring in the verse to the foot) are used metaphorically for the manner of life Job lived.
5 tn Heb “an animal of the field.”