Discovery Box| (0.61) | (Job 17:4) | 2 sn The pronoun their refers to Job’s friends. They have not pledged security for him because God has hidden or sealed off their understanding. |
| (0.61) | (Job 13:16) | 1 sn The fact that Job will dare to come before God and make his case is evidence—to Job at least—that he is innocent. |
| (0.61) | (Job 12:7) | 1 sn As J. E. Hartley (Job [NICOT], 216) observes, in this section Job argues that respected tradition “must not be accepted uncritically.” |
| (0.61) | (Job 11:16) | 2 sn It is interesting to note in the book that the resolution of Job’s trouble did not come in the way that Zophar prescribed it. |
| (0.61) | (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. |
| (0.61) | (Job 2:3) | 2 tn This is the same word used to describe Job as “blameless, pure.” Here it carries the idea of “integrity”; Job remained blameless, perfect. |
| (0.61) | (Job 1:12) | 4 tn The Hebrew word order emphatically holds out Job’s person as the exception: “only upon him do not stretch forth your hand.” |
| (0.57) | (Luk 12:43) | 2 tn That is, doing his job, doing what he is supposed to be doing. |
| (0.57) | (Mat 24:46) | 1 tn That is, doing his job, doing what he is supposed to be doing. |
| (0.57) | (Psa 119:120) | 2 tn The Hebrew verb סָמַר (samar, “to tremble”) occurs only here and in Job 4:15. |
| (0.57) | (Psa 89:45) | 1 tn Heb “the days of his youth” (see as well Job 33:25). |
| (0.57) | (Psa 58:8) | 4 tn This rare word also appears in Job 3:16 and Eccles 6:3. |
| (0.57) | (Job 42:9) | 1 tn The expression “had respect for Job” means God answered his prayer. |
| (0.57) | (Job 42:3) | 2 tn The word לָכֵן (lakhen) is simply “but,” as in Job 31:37. |
| (0.57) | (Job 37:24) | 1 sn The phrase “wise of heart” was used in Job 9:4 in a negative sense. |
| (0.57) | (Job 34:20) | 2 tn R. Gordis (Job, 389) thinks “people” here mean the people who count, the upper class. |
| (0.57) | (Job 33:10) | 1 sn See Job 10:13ff.; 19:6ff.; 13:24. |
| (0.57) | (Job 33:9) | 1 sn See Job 9:21; 10:7; 23:7; 27:4; ch. 31. |
| (0.57) | (Job 32:14) | 1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Job) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.57) | (Job 31:31) | 5 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Job) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
