⁴ tn Grk “shall visit us.”

² tn Heb “visit [in judgment].”

² tn Heb “you visited [at] night.”

² tn Heb “Samson visited his wife with a young goat.”

¹ tn The word “visit” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.

¹ tn Grk “a second grace,” “a second favor” (used figuratively of a second visit by Paul).

¹ tn Heb “the days of the visitation”; cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “the days of punishment.”

³ tn Heb “visited [for harm]” (cf. KJV, ASV); NAB, NRSV “you have punished.”

³ tn Heb “lest [someone] visit [harm] upon it, night and day I guard it.”

² tn Heb “visit [with favor]” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “will deal with.”

² tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

¹ tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the visiting Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “in the beginning,” that is, at the end of their first visit.

¹ tn The verb פָּקַד (paqad) is a very common one in the Bible; while it is frequently translated “visit,” the “visit” is never comparable to a social call. When God “visits” people it always means a divine intervention for blessing or cursing—but the visit always changes the destiny of the one visited. Here Job is amazed that God Almighty would be so involved in the life of mere human beings.

⁵ sn You did not recognize the time of your visitation refers to the time God came to visit them. They had missed the Messiah; see Luke 1:68-79.

² tn The verb פָּקַד (paqad) means “to visit” (also “to appoint; to muster; to number”). When God visits, it means that he intervenes in one’s life for blessing or cursing (punishing, destroying).

² tn The verb פָּקַד (paqad) means “to visit,” but with God as the subject it means any divine intervention for blessing or cursing, anything God does that changes a person’s life. Here it is “visit to judge.”

² tn Heb “and I have visited its [punishment for] iniquity on it.” See the note on Lev 17:16 above.

³ tn Heb “visited” (so KJV, ASV). This verse can mean to visit for good or for evil. The translation assumes the latter, based on v. 21a. However, BDB 823 s.v. פָּקַד B.Niph.2 suggests the meaning “visit graciously” here, in which case one might translate “they will be released.”