² tn Or “comfort.”

² tn Or “comforted,” “consoled.”

² tn Or “comfort,” “consolation.”

¹ tn Or “comforts,” “consoles.”

² tn Or “find comfort.”

³ tn Or “comforted” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).

² tn Or “to comfort them” or “to offer them sympathy.”

¹ tn Heb “From whence shall I find comforters for you?”

³ tn Heb “For a comforter is far from me.”

¹ tn Heb “like a man whose mother comforts him.”

² tn Heb “your comforts cause my soul to delight.”

¹ tn Grk “that is, to be comforted together with you through the faith in one another.”

³ tn The ו (vav) prefixed to וַאֲנַחֲמֵךְ (vaʾanakhamekh, “I might comfort you”) denotes purpose: “so that….”

² tn Heb “you will suck and be satisfied from her comforting breast.”

² sn The name Nehemiah in Hebrew (נְחֶמְיָה, n^ekhemyah) means “the Lord comforts.”

¹ sn The words of comfort and consolation that they have been offering to Job are here said to be from God, but Job will call them miserable comforters (16:2).

³ tn Grk “to comfort them concerning their brother”; the words “loss of” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

⁹ tn Heb “comforts.” The verb נָחַם (nakham, “to comfort”) is used as a metonymy of effect (i.e., comfort) for cause (i.e., deliverance), e.g., it is used in parallelism with גָאַל (gaʾal, “to deliver”) in Isa 52:9 (see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 560-67).

¹ sn The disciples were still not comfortable at this point thinking that this could be Jesus raised from the dead. Instead they thought they saw a spirit.

³ tn Heb “your work.” Contextually her “work” refers to her weeping and refusing to be comforted, that is, signs of genuine repentance (v. 15).