(0.30) | (Job 37:23) | 1 tn The name “Almighty” is here a casus pendens, isolating the name at the front of the sentence and resuming it with a pronoun. |
(0.30) | (Job 36:22) | 1 tn The word מוֹרֶה (moreh) is the Hiphil participle from יָרַה (yarah). It is related to the noun תּוֹרָה (torah, “what is taught” i.e., the law). |
(0.30) | (Job 36:13) | 1 tn The expression “godless [or hypocrite] in heart” is an intensification of the description. It conveys that they are intentionally godless. See Matt 23:28. |
(0.30) | (Job 35:15) | 3 tn The word פַּשׁ (pash) is a hapax legomenon. K&D 12:275 derived it from an Arabic word meaning “belch,” leading to the idea of “overflow.” BDB 832 s.v. defines it as “folly.” Several define it as “transgression” on the basis of the versions (Theodotion, Symmachus, Vulgate). The RSV took it as “greatly heed,” but that is not exactly “greatly know,” when the text beyond that requires “not know at all.” The NIV has “he does not take the least notice of wickedness.” |
(0.30) | (Job 35:12) | 1 tn The adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”) connects this verse to v. 11. “There” can be locative or temporal—and here it is temporal (= “then”). |
(0.30) | (Job 35:4) | 2 tn The Hebrew text adds, “with words,” but since this is obvious, for stylistic reasons it has not been included in the translation. |
(0.30) | (Job 34:11) | 2 tn Heb “he causes it to find him.” The text means that God will cause a man to find (or receive) the consequences of his actions. |
(0.30) | (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. |
(0.30) | (Job 34:18) | 1 tc Heb “Does one say,” although some smooth it out to say “Is it fit to say?” For the reading “who says,” the form has to be repointed to הַאֹמֵר (haʾomer) meaning, “who is the one saying.” This reading is supported by the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac. Also it seems to flow better with the following verse. It would be saying that God is over the rulers and can rebuke them. The former view is saying that no one rebukes kings, much less Job rebuking God. |
(0.30) | (Job 34:10) | 1 tn Heb “men of heart.” The “heart” is used for the capacity to understand and make the proper choice. It is often translated “mind.” |
(0.30) | (Job 34:8) | 2 tn The word חֶבְרַה (khevrah, “company”) is a hapax legomenon. But its meaning is clear enough from the connections to related words and this context as well. |
(0.30) | (Job 33:32) | 2 tn The infinitive construct serves as the complement or object of “I desire.” It could be rendered “to justify you” or “your justification,” namely, “that you be justified.” |
(0.30) | (Job 32:12) | 1 tn The verb again is from בִּין (bin, “to perceive; to understand”); in this stem it means to “to pay close attention.” |
(0.30) | (Job 32:2) | 2 tn The second comment about Elihu’s anger comes right before the statement of its cause. Now the perfect verb is used: “he was angry.” |
(0.30) | (Job 32:1) | 3 tc The LXX, Syriac, and Symmachus have “in their eyes.” This is adopted by some commentators, but it does not fit the argument. |
(0.30) | (Job 31:33) | 4 tn The MT has “in my bosom.” This is the only place in the OT where this word is found. But its meaning is well attested from Aramaic. |
(0.30) | (Job 31:26) | 1 tn Heb “light,” but parallel to the moon it is the sun. This section speaks of false worship of the sun and the moon. |
(0.30) | (Job 31:20) | 2 tn This clause is interpreted here as a subordinate clause to the first half of the verse. It could also be a separate clause: “was he not warmed…?” |
(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 30:27) | 3 tn The last clause reads “and they [it] are not quiet” or “do not cease.” The clause then serves adverbially for the sentence—“unceasingly.” |