Discovery Box| (0.43) | (Mat 3:12) | 3 sn The image of fire that cannot be extinguished is from the OT: Job 20:26; Isa 34:8-10; 66:24. |
| (0.43) | (Eze 30:21) | 1 sn The expression “breaking the arm” indicates the removal of power (Pss 10:15; 37:17; Job 38:15; Jer 48:25). |
| (0.43) | (Jer 7:29) | 1 sn See Mic 1:16 and Job 1:20 for other examples of this practice that was involved in mourning. |
| (0.43) | (Isa 27:1) | 3 tn Heb “fleeing” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV). Some translate “slippery” or “slithering.” See the same Hebrew phrase in Job 26:13. |
| (0.43) | (Pro 30:32) | 2 tn Heb “hand to mouth.” This expression means “put your hand to your mouth” (e.g., Job 40:4, 5); cf. NIV “clap your hand over.” |
| (0.43) | (Pro 3:25) | 2 tn Heb “terror of suddenness.” The noun פִּתְאֹם (pitʾom, “sudden”) functions as an attributive genitive: “sudden terror” (e.g., Job 22:10; BDB 837 s.v.). |
| (0.43) | (Psa 144:13) | 4 tn Heb “in outside places.” Here the term refers to pastures and fields (see Job 5:10; Prov 8:26). |
| (0.43) | (Psa 139:13) | 3 tn The Hebrew verb סָכַךְ (sakhakh, “to weave together”) is an alternate form of שָׂכַךְ (sakhakh, “to weave”) used in Job 10:11. |
| (0.43) | (Psa 126:6) | 1 tn The noun occurs only here and in Job 28:18 in the OT. See HALOT 646 s.v. I מֶשֶׁךְ which gives “leather pouch” as the meaning. |
| (0.43) | (Psa 109:25) | 2 sn They shake their heads. Apparently shaking the head was a taunting gesture. See also Job 16:4; Ps 22:7; Lam 2:15. |
| (0.43) | (Psa 22:7) | 3 sn Shake their heads. Apparently this refers to a taunting gesture. See also Job 16:4; Ps 109:25; Lam 2:15. |
| (0.43) | (Psa 11:4) | 6 tn For other uses of the verb in this sense, see Job 7:18; Pss 7:9; 26:2; 139:23. |
| (0.43) | (Psa 7:9) | 5 tn For other uses of the verb in this sense, see Job 7:18; Pss 11:4; 26:2; 139:23. |
| (0.43) | (Job 39:14) | 1 tn The meaning may have the connotation of “lays; places,” rather than simply abandoning (see M. Dahood, “The Root ʿzb II in Job,” JBL 78 [1959]: 307f.). |
| (0.43) | (Job 38:1) | 1 sn This is the culmination of it all, the revelation of the Lord to Job. Most interpreters see here the style and content of the author of the book, a return to the beginning of the book. Here the Lord speaks to Job and displays his sovereign power and glory. Job has lived through the suffering—without cursing God. He has held to his integrity, and nowhere regretted it. But he was unaware of the real reason for the suffering, and will remain unaware throughout these speeches. God intervenes to resolve the spiritual issues that surfaced. Job was not punished for sin. And Job’s suffering had not cut him off from God. In the end the point is that Job cannot have the knowledge to make the assessments he made. It is wiser to bow in submission and adoration of God than to try to judge him. The first speech of God has these sections: the challenge (38:1-3), the surpassing mysteries of earth and sky beyond Job’s understanding (4-38), and the mysteries of animal and bird life that surpassed his understanding (38:39-39:30). |
| (0.43) | (Job 34:33) | 3 tn There is no object on the verb, and the meaning is perhaps lost. The best guess is that Elihu is saying Job has rejected his teaching. |
| (0.43) | (Job 34:17) | 1 tn The force of הַאַף (haʾaf) is “Is it truly the case?” The point is being made that if Job were right God could not be judging the world. |
| (0.43) | (Job 33:29) | 1 sn Elihu will repeat these instructions for Job to listen, over and over in painful repetition. See note on the heading to 32:1. |
| (0.43) | (Job 33:18) | 1 tn A number of interpreters and translations take this as “the pit” (see Job 17:14; cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). |
| (0.43) | (Job 31:32) | 1 tn This verse forms another parenthesis. Job stops almost at every point now in the conditional clauses to affirm his purity and integrity. |
