² tn Heb “Sheol.”

¹ tn Heb “Sheol.”

³ tn Or “Sheol.”

³ tn Or “lower Sheol.”

² tn Heb “darkness,” here a title for Sheol.

² tn Heb “and my life approaches Sheol.”

³ tn Heb “Where, O Sheol, is your destruction?” (NRSV similar).

³ tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”

⁴ tn Heb “to Sheol,” the dwelling place of the dead.

⁴ tn Heb “to Sheol,” the dwelling place of the dead.

³ tn The Hebrew word בַּדִּים (baddim) describes the “bars” or “bolts” of Sheol, referring (by synecdoche) to the “gates of Sheol.” The LXX has “with me to Sheol,” and many adopt that as “by my side.”

² tn Heb “and he said, ‘Indeed I will go down to my son mourning to Sheol.’” Sheol was viewed as the place where departed spirits went after death.

¹ sn Sheol is the underworld, land of the dead, according to the OT world view.

² tn Heb “so Sheol will make wide its throat, and open its mouth without limit.”

⁴ tn Heb “to turn from Sheol downward”; cf. NAB “the nether world below.”

² tn Heb “and do not bring down his grey hair in peace [to] Sheol.”

¹ tn Heb “Sheol”; NAB “the nether world”; CEV “the world of the dead.”

² sn In this verse Job is expressing the common view of life beyond death, namely, that in Sheol there is no contact with the living, only separation, but in Sheol there is a conscious awareness of the dreary existence.

¹ sn Sheol is the proper name of the subterranean world which was regarded as the land of the dead.

¹ tn Heb “in Abaddon,” a name for Sheol. The noun is derived from a verbal root meaning “to perish,” “to die.”