Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Isa 36:19) | 1 tn The rhetorical questions suggest the answer, “Nowhere. They seem to have disappeared in the face of Assyria’s might.” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 36:12) | 2 tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 29:17) | 1 tn The Hebrew text phrases this as a rhetorical question, “Is it not yet a little, a short [time]?” |
| (0.35) | (Isa 29:15) | 3 tn The rhetorical questions suggest the answer: “No one.” They are confident that their deeds are hidden from others, including God. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 14:32) | 1 sn The question forces the Philistines to consider the dilemma they will face—surrender and oppression, or battle and death. |
| (0.35) | (Sos 6:10) | 1 sn This rhetorical question emphasizes her position among women (e.g., Mic 2:7; Joel 2:1). |
| (0.35) | (Pro 30:4) | 1 sn To make his point Agur includes five questions. These, like Job 38-41, or Proverbs 8:24-29, focus on the divine acts to show that it is absurd for a mere mortal to think that he can explain God’s work or compare himself to God. These questions display mankind’s limitations and God’s incomparable nature. The first question could be open to include humans, but may refer to God alone (as the other questions do). |
| (0.35) | (Pro 20:6) | 3 sn The point of the rhetorical question is that a truly faithful friend is very difficult to find. |
| (0.35) | (Pro 5:16) | 1 tn The verb means “to be scattered; to be dispersed”; here the imperfect takes a deliberative nuance in a rhetorical question. |
| (0.35) | (Psa 94:16) | 2 sn Who will stand up for me…? The questions anticipate the answer, “No one except God” (see v. 17). |
| (0.35) | (Psa 56:11) | 2 tn The rhetorical question assumes the answer, “Nothing!” The imperfect is used in a modal sense here, indicating capability or potential. |
| (0.35) | (Psa 56:4) | 3 tn The rhetorical question assumes the answer, “Nothing!” The imperfect is used in a modal sense here, indicating capability or potential. |
| (0.35) | (Psa 10:13) | 1 tn The rhetorical question expresses the psalmist’s outrage that the wicked would have the audacity to disdain God. |
| (0.35) | (Job 41:3) | 2 tn The rhetorical question again affirms the opposite. The poem is portraying the creature as powerful and insensitive. |
| (0.35) | (Job 25:3) | 1 tn Heb “Is there a number to his troops?” The question is rhetorical: there is no number to them! |
| (0.35) | (Job 3:16) | 1 tn The verb is governed by the interrogative of v. 12 that introduces this series of rhetorical questions. |
| (0.35) | (2Ki 18:27) | 2 tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.” |
| (0.35) | (2Sa 7:7) | 1 tn Heb “Did I speak a word?” In the Hebrew text the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question. |
| (0.35) | (Num 16:13) | 1 tn The question is rhetorical. It was not a small thing to them—it was a big thing. |
| (0.35) | (Exo 5:14) | 1 tn The quotation is introduced with the common word לֵאמֹר (leʾmor, “saying”) and no mention of who said the question. |
