Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Job 15:35) | 1 tn Infinitives absolute are used in this verse in the place of finite verbs. They lend a greater vividness to the description, stressing the basic meaning of the words. |
| (0.30) | (Job 15:4) | 4 tn The word שִׂיחָה (sikhah) is “complaint; cry; meditation.” Job would be influencing people to challenge God and not to meditate before or pray to him. |
| (0.30) | (Job 14:14) | 3 tn The verb אֲיַחֵל (ʾayakhel) may be rendered “I will/would wait” or “I will/would hope.” The word describes eager expectation and longing hope. |
| (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 13:10) | 2 sn The use of the word “in secret” or “secretly” suggests that what they do is a guilty action (31:27a). |
| (0.30) | (Job 12:4) | 5 tn The two words, צַדִּיק תָּמִים (tsadiq tamim), could be understood as a hendiadys (= “blamelessly just”) following W. G. E. Watson (Classical Hebrew Poetry, 327). |
| (0.30) | (Job 12:5) | 2 tn The noun עַשְׁתּוּת (ʿashtut, preferably עַשְׁתּוֹת, ʿashtot) is an abstract noun from עָשַׁת (ʿashat, “to think”). The word שַׁאֲנָן (shaʾanan) means “easy in mind, carefree,” and “happy.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 11:7) | 2 tn The word means “search; investigation,” but it here means what is discovered in the search (so a metonymy of cause for the effect). |
| (0.30) | (Job 10:22) | 2 tn The Hebrew word literally means “it shines”; the feminine verb implies a subject like “the light” (but see GKC 459 §144.c). |
| (0.30) | (Job 11:2) | 1 tn There is no article or demonstrative with the word; it has been added here simply to make a smoother connection between the chapters. |
| (0.30) | (Job 8:10) | 3 tn The noun may have been left indeterminate for the sake of emphasis (GKC 401-2 §125.c), meaning “important words.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 7:15) | 5 tn This is one of the few words recognizable in the LXX: “You will separate life from my spirit, and yet keep my bones from death.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 8:2) | 4 tn See, however, G. R. Driver’s translation, “the breath of one who is mighty are the words of your mouth” (“Hebrew Studies,” JRAS 1948: 170). |
| (0.30) | (Job 6:18) | 3 tn The word תֹּהוּ (tohu) was used in Genesis for “waste,” meaning without shape or structure. Here the term refers to the trackless, unending wilderness (cf. 12:24). |
| (0.30) | (Job 6:19) | 3 tn The words “for these streams” are supplied from context to complete the thought and make the connection with the preceding context. |
| (0.30) | (Job 6:19) | 4 tn In Ps 68:24 this word has the meaning of “processions”; here that procession is of traveling merchants forming convoys or caravans. |
| (0.30) | (Job 6:2) | 2 tn Job pairs כַּעְסִי (kaʿsi, “my grief”) and הַיָּתִי (hayyati, “my misfortune”). The first word, used in Job 4:2, refers to Job’s whole demeanor that he shows his friends—the impatient and vexed expression of his grief. The second word expresses his misfortune, the cause of his grief. Job wants these placed together in the balances so that his friends could see the misfortune is greater than the grief. The word for “misfortune” is a Kethib-Qere reading. The two words have essentially the same meaning; they derive from the verb הָוַה (havah, “to fall”) and so mean a misfortune. |
| (0.30) | (Job 5:24) | 4 tn The word שָׁלוֹם (shalom) means “peace; safety; security; wholeness.” The same use appears in 1 Sam 25:6; 2 Sam 20:9. |
| (0.30) | (Job 5:8) | 2 tn The word אוּלָם (ʾulam) is a strong adversative “but.” This forms the contrast with what has been said previously and so marks a new section. |
| (0.30) | (Job 4:14) | 1 tn The two words פַּחַד (pakhad, “dread”) and רְעָדָה (reʿadah, “trembling”) strengthen each other as synonyms (see also Ps 55:6). |
