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Job 37:19

Context

37:19 Tell us what we should 1  say to him.

We cannot prepare a case 2 

because of the darkness.

Job 37:23

Context

37:23 As for the Almighty, 3  we cannot attain to him!

He is great in power,

but justice 4  and abundant righteousness he does not oppress.

1 tn The imperfect verb here carries the obligatory nuance, “what we should say?”

2 tn The verb means “to arrange; to set in order.” From the context the idea of a legal case is included.

3 tn The name “Almighty” is here a casus pendens, isolating the name at the front of the sentence and resuming it with a pronoun.

4 tn The MT places the major disjunctive accent (the atnach) under “power,” indicating that “and justice” as a disjunctive clause starting the second half of the verse (with ESV, NASB, NIV, NLT). Ignoring the Masoretic accent, NRSV has “he is great in power and justice.”



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