Discovery Box| (0.30) | (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. |
| (0.30) | (Job 31:38) | 1 sn Many commentators place vv. 38-40b at the end of v. 34, so that there is no return to these conditional clauses after his final appeal. |
| (0.30) | (Job 31:20) | 1 tn The MT has simply “if his loins did not bless me.” In the conditional clause this is another protasis. It means, “if I saw someone dying and if he did not thank me for clothing them.” It is Job’s way of saying that whenever he saw a need he met it, and he received his share of thanks—which prove his kindness. G. R. Driver has it “without his loins having blessed me,” taking “If…not” as an Aramaism, meaning “except” (AJSL 52 [1935/36]: 164f.). |
| (0.30) | (Job 23:14) | 2 sn The text is saying that many similar situations are under God’s rule of the world—his plans are infinite. |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:16) | 2 sn Even though their life seems so good in contrast to his own plight, Job cannot and will not embrace their principles—“far be from me their counsel.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 20:26) | 1 tn Heb “all darkness is hidden for his laid up things.” “All darkness” refers to the misfortunes and afflictions that await. The verb “hidden” means “is destined for.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 20:18) | 2 tn Heb “and he does not swallow.” In the context this means “consume” for his own pleasure and prosperity. The verbal clause is here taken adverbially. |
| (0.30) | (Job 19:6) | 3 tn The verb נָקַף (naqaf) means “to turn; to make a circle; to encircle.” It means that God has encircled or engulfed Job with his net. |
| (0.30) | (Job 19:11) | 2 tn This second half of the verse is a little difficult. The Hebrew has “and he reckons me for him like his adversaries.” Most would change the last word to a singular in harmony with the versions, “as his adversary.” But some retain the MT pointing and try to explain it variously: Weiser suggests that the plural might have come from a cultic recitation of Yahweh’s deeds against his enemies; Fohrer thinks it refers to the primeval enemies; Gordis takes it as distributive, “as one of his foes.” If the plural is retained, this last view makes the most sense. |
| (0.30) | (Job 19:4) | 1 tn Job has held to his innocence, so the only way that he could say “I have erred” (שָׁגִיתִי, shagiti) is in a hypothetical clause like this. |
| (0.30) | (Job 18:10) | 1 tn Heb “his rope.” The suffix must be a genitive expressing that the trap was for him, to trap him, and so an objective genitive. |
| (0.30) | (Job 18:5) | 3 tn The expression is literally “the flame of his fire,” but the pronominal suffix qualifies the entire bound construction. The two words together intensify the idea of the flame. |
| (0.30) | (Job 18:4) | 3 sn Bildad is asking if Job thinks the whole moral order of the world should be interrupted for his sake, that he may escape the punishment for wickedness. |
| (0.30) | (Job 16:18) | 1 sn Job knows that he will die, and that his death, signified here by blood on the ground, will cry out for vindication. |
| (0.30) | (Job 15:2) | 2 tn The image is rather graphic. It is saying that he puffs himself up with the wind and then brings out of his mouth blasts of this wind. |
| (0.30) | (Job 13:27) | 2 tn The word means “ways; roads; paths,” but it is used here in the sense of the “way” in which one goes about his activities. |
| (0.30) | (Job 14:1) | 2 tn The second description is simply “[is] short of days.” The meaning here is that his life is short (“days” being put as the understatement for “years”). |
| (0.30) | (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. |
| (0.30) | (Job 12:17) | 4 sn The judges, like the counselors, are nobles in the cities. God may reverse their lot, either by captivity or by shame, and they cannot resist his power. |
| (0.30) | (Job 12:4) | 3 tn Heb “his friend.” A number of English versions (e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT) take this collectively, “to my friends.” |
