¹ tn Heb “exchange pledges.”

¹ tn Heb “his pledge.”

³ tn Or “pledged” for marriage.

¹ tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit.”

¹ tn Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit.”

¹ tn Heb “the sons of the pledges.”

³ tn Heb “true sign,” that is, “an inviolable token or pledge.”

³ tn The line uses the participle עֹרֵב (ʿorev) with its cognate accusative עֲרֻבָּה (ʿarubbah), “who pledges a pledge.”

¹ tn Heb “his pledge.” This refers to something offered as pledge of repayment, i.e., as security for the debt.

⁶ tn Heb “struck your hands”; NIV “have struck hands in pledge”; NASB “have given a pledge.” The guarantee of a pledge was signaled by a handshake (e.g., 11:15; 17:18; 22:26).

² tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.

² tn Grk “obtained promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.

¹ tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.

¹ tn Here “received the promises” refers to the pledges themselves, not to the things God promised.

¹ tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.

² tn The phrase “in pledge” is supplied for the sake of clarification.

² tn Heb “to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand.”

¹ tc The MT has two imperatives: “Set (down), pledge me, with you.” Most commentators think that the second imperative, עָרְבֵנִי (ʿar^eveni, “pledge security for), should be repointed as a noun, עֵרְבֹנִי (ʿer^evoni, “my pledge of security”) and take it to say, “Set my pledge beside you.” A. B. Davidson (Job, 126) suggests that the first verb means “give a pledge,” and so the two similar verbs would be emphatic: “Give a pledge, be my surety.” However, the verb שִׂים (sim, “set”) does not work with other verbs in this manner in any other contexts.

¹ tn Heb “restores to the debtor his pledge.” The root occurs in Exod 22:25 in reference to restoring a man’s garment as a pledge before nightfall.

¹ tn The verb חָבַל (khaval) means “to take pledges.” In this verse Eliphaz says that Job not only took as pledge things the poor need, like clothing, but he did it for no reason.