Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Job 28:6) | 1 tn It is probably best to take “place” in construct to the rest of the colon, with an understood relative clause: “a place, the rocks of which are sapphires.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 22:8) | 4 tn Many commentators simply delete the verse or move it elsewhere. Most take it as a general reference to Job, perhaps in apposition to the preceding verse. |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:18) | 2 tn The verb used actually means “rob.” It is appropriate to the image of a whirlwind suddenly taking away the wisp of straw. |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:12) | 1 tn The verb is simply “they take up [or lift up],” but the understood object is “their voices,” and so it means “they sing.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 20:21) | 1 tn Heb “for his eating,” which is frequently rendered “for his gluttony.” It refers, of course, to all the desires he has to take things from other people. |
| (0.30) | (Job 20:16) | 2 sn To take the possessions of another person is hereby compared to sucking poison from a serpent—it will kill eventually. |
| (0.30) | (Job 16:22) | 2 tn The verbal expression “I will not return” serves here to modify the journey that he will take. It is “the road [of] I will not return.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 13:21) | 1 tn The imperative הַרְחַק (harkhaq, “remove”; GKC 98 §29.q), from רָחַק (rakhaq, “far, be far”) means “take away [far away]; to remove.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 12:8) | 2 tn A. B. Davidson (Job, 90) offers a solution by taking “earth” to mean all the lower forms of life that teem in the earth (a metonymy of subject). |
| (0.30) | (Job 12:4) | 3 tn Heb “his friend.” A number of English versions (e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT) take this collectively, “to my friends.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 3:6) | 1 tn The verb is simply לָקַח (laqakh, “to take”). Here it conveys a strong sense of seizing something and not letting it go. |
| (0.30) | (Neh 13:21) | 3 sn This statement contains a great deal of restrained humor. The author clearly takes pleasure in the effectiveness of the measures that he had enacted. |
| (0.30) | (Ezr 4:12) | 1 tn The MT takes this word with the latter part of v. 11, but in English style it fits better with v. 12. |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 36:21) | 2 tn The verb may be seen as either of two homophonous roots רָצָה (ratsah) meaning “to restore” or “to accept, take pleasure in.” |
| (0.30) | (1Sa 1:28) | 3 tc The MT is singular, apparently referring to Samuel (but cf. CEV “Elkanah”). A few medieval manuscripts and some ancient versions take the verb as plural (cf. TEV, NLT). |
| (0.30) | (Deu 23:1) | 1 tn Heb “bruised by crushing,” which many English versions take to refer to crushed testicles (NAB, NRSV, NLT); TEV “who has been castrated.” |
| (0.30) | (Num 36:4) | 1 tn The verb הָיָה (hayah) is most often translated “to be,” but it can also mean “to happen, to take place, to come to pass,” etc. |
| (0.30) | (Num 10:11) | 2 tc Smr inserts a lengthy portion from Deut 1:6-8, expressing the command for Israel to take the land from the Amorites. |
| (0.30) | (Num 6:2) | 1 tn The formula is used here again: “a man or a woman—when he takes.” The vow is open to both men and women. |
| (0.30) | (Num 3:47) | 2 tn The idea is expressed simply by repetition: “take five, five, shekels according to the skull.” They were to collect five shekels for each individual. |
