Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Job 26:13) | 1 tn Or “wind”; or perhaps “Spirit.” The same Hebrew word, רוּחַ (ruakh), may be translated as “wind,” “breath,” or “spirit/Spirit” depending on the context. |
| (0.30) | (Job 26:7) | 2 sn There is an allusion to the creation account, for this word is תֹּהוּ (tohu), translated “without form” in Gen 1:2. |
| (0.30) | (Job 26:2) | 2 tn The “powerless” is expressed here by the negative before the word for “strength; power”—“him who has no power” (see GKC 482 §152.u, v). |
| (0.30) | (Job 25:2) | 1 tn The word הַמְשֵׁל (hamshel) is a Hiphil infinitive absolute used as a noun. It describes the rulership or dominion that God has, that which gives power and authority. |
| (0.30) | (Job 24:22) | 2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity. See the note on the word “life” at the end of the line. |
| (0.30) | (Job 22:25) | 2 tn E. Dhorme (Job, 339) connects this word with an Arabic root meaning “to be elevated, steep.” From that he gets “heaps of silver.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 22:11) | 2 tn The word שִׁפְעַת (shifʿat) means “multitude of.” It is used of men, camels, horses, and here of waters in the heavens. |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:34) | 1 tn The word מָעַל (maʿal) is used for “treachery; deception; fraud.” Here Job is saying that their way of interpreting reality is dangerously unfaithful. |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:32) | 2 tn The Hebrew word refers to the tumulus, the burial mound that is erected on the spot where the person is buried. |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:27) | 2 tn For the meaning of this word, and its root זָמַם (zamam), see Job 17:11. It usually means the “plans” or “schemes” that are concocted against someone. |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:9) | 1 tn The word שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace, safety”) is here a substantive after a plural subject (see GKC 452 §141.c, n. 3). |
| (0.30) | (Job 20:24) | 1 tn Heb “a bronze bow pierces him.” The words “an arrow from” are implied and are supplied in the translation; cf. “pulls it out” in the following verse. |
| (0.30) | (Job 19:23) | 1 tn The optative is again expressed with the interrogative clause “Who will give that they be written?” Job wishes that his words be preserved long after his death. |
| (0.30) | (Job 18:21) | 2 tn The word “place” is in construct; the clause following it replaces the genitive: “this is the place of—he has not known God.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 19:2) | 2 tn The MT has דָּכָא (dakhaʾ), “to crush” in the Piel. The LXX, however, has a more general word which means “to destroy.” |
| (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 17:3) | 2 sn The idiom is “to strike the hand.” Here the wording is a little different, “Who is he that will strike himself into my hand?” |
| (0.30) | (Job 16:18) | 2 tn The word is simply “a place,” but in the context it surely means a hidden place, a secret place that would never be discovered (see 18:21). |
| (0.30) | (Job 16:3) | 4 tn The Hiphil of מָרַץ (marats) does not occur anywhere else. The word means “to compel; to force” (see 6:25). |
| (0.30) | (Job 16:3) | 5 tn The LXX seems to have gone a different way: “What, is there any reason in vain words, or what will hinder you from answering?” |
