Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Job 9:34) | 4 tn “His terror” is metonymical; it refers to the awesome majesty of God that overwhelms Job and causes him to be afraid. |
| (0.30) | (Job 9:4) | 1 tn The genitive phrase translated “in heart” would be a genitive of specification, specifying that the wisdom of God is in his intelligent decisions. |
| (0.30) | (Job 7:13) | 3 sn Sleep is the recourse of the troubled and unhappy. Here “bed” is metonymical for sleep. Job expects sleep to give him the comfort that his friends have not. |
| (0.30) | (Job 7:10) | 1 tn M. Dahood suggests the meaning is the same as “his abode” (“Hebrew-Ugaritic Lexicography V,” Bib 48 [1967]: 421-38). |
| (0.30) | (Job 7:5) | 2 tn The implied comparison is vivid: the dirty scabs cover his entire body like a garment—so he is clothed with them. |
| (0.30) | (Job 1:8) | 1 sn The question is undoubtedly rhetorical, for it is designed to make Satan aware of Job as God extols his fine qualities. |
| (0.30) | (Job 1:5) | 6 tn The text does not have “according to”; the noun “number” is an accusative that defines the extent of his actions (GKC 373-74 §118.e, h). |
| (0.30) | (Job 1:3) | 1 tn The word means “cattle, livestock, possessions” (see also Gen 26:14). Here it includes the livestock, but also the entire substance of his household. |
| (0.30) | (Est 7:9) | 1 sn Cf. 1:10, where Harbona is one of the seven eunuchs sent by the king to summon Queen Vashti to his banquet. |
| (0.30) | (Est 7:7) | 1 sn There is great irony here in that the man who set out to destroy all the Jews now finds himself begging for his own life from a Jew. |
| (0.30) | (Est 5:9) | 2 tn Heb “tremble from before him”; NIV “nor showed fear in his presence”; TEV “or show any sign of respect as he passed.” |
| (0.30) | (Neh 11:14) | 1 tc The translation reads with the LXX וְאֶחָיו (veʾekhayv, “and his brothers”) rather than the MT reading וַאֲחֵיהֶם (vaʾakhehem, “and their brothers”). |
| (0.30) | (Ezr 5:5) | 1 tn Aram “the eye of their God was on.” The idiom describes the attentive care that one exercises in behalf of the object of his concern. |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 36:15) | 2 tn Heb “and the Lord God of their fathers sent against them by the hand of his messengers, getting up early and sending.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 30:8) | 3 tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from you.” The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative. |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 29:2) | 1 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which David his father had done.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 29:10) | 2 tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from us.” The jussive with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding statement of intention. |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 27:2) | 1 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Uzziah his father had done.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 26:15) | 1 tn Heb “and his name went out to a distant place, for he did extraordinarily to be helped until he was strong.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 26:4) | 1 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Amaziah his father had done.” |
