Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Job 18:6) | 1 sn This thesis of Bildad will be questioned by Job in 21:17—how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? |
| (0.30) | (Job 16:3) | 1 tn Disjunctive questions are introduced with the sign of the interrogative; the second part is introduced with אוֹ (ʾo, see GKC 475 §150.g). |
| (0.30) | (Job 9:29) | 2 tn The demonstrative pronoun is included to bring particular emphasis to the question, as if to say, “Why in the world…” (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 24, §118). |
| (0.30) | (Job 8:2) | 1 sn “These things” refers to all of Job’s speech, the general drift of which seems to Bildad to question the justice of God. |
| (0.30) | (Job 7:17) | 1 tn The verse is a rhetorical question; it is intended to mean that man is too little for God to be making so much over him in all this. |
| (0.30) | (Job 1:8) | 1 sn The question is undoubtedly rhetorical, for it is designed to make Satan aware of Job as God extols his fine qualities. |
| (0.30) | (Est 4:14) | 3 tn Heb “And who knows whether” (so NASB). The question is one of hope, but free of presumption. Cf. Jonah 3:9. |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 32:12) | 1 tn Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement. |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 20:7) | 1 tn Heb “did you not drive out . . . ?” This is another rhetorical question which expects a positive response; see the note on the word “heaven” in the previous verse. |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 17:6) | 1 tn In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question (“Did I say a word?”) meaning “I did not say a word.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 20:19) | 3 tn Heb “Is it not [true] there will be peace and stability in my days?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, there will be peace and stability.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 19:25) | 2 tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say. |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 18:27) | 1 tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer. |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 6:11) | 3 tn Heb “Will you not tell me who among us [is] for the king of Israel?” The sarcastic rhetorical question expresses the king’s suspicion. |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 5:26) | 3 tn In the MT the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question, “Is this the time…?” It expects an emphatic negative response. |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 5:12) | 1 tn Heb “Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all of the waters of Israel?” The rhetorical question expects an emphatic “yes” as an answer. |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 4:26) | 1 tn Heb “she said.” The narrator streamlines the story at this point, omitting any reference to Gehazi running to meet her and asking her the questions. |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 1:16) | 2 tn Heb “Because you sent… therefore you will not leave.” The rhetorical question is a parenthetical remark inserted into the proposition for dramatic effect. |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 18:13) | 1 tn Heb “Has it not been told to my master what I did…?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “Of course it has!” |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 8:27) | 1 tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect. |
