Discovery Box| (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 13:28) | 1 tn Heb “and he.” Some of the commentators move the verse and put it after Job 14:2, 3 or 6. |
| (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 9:19) | 3 sn Job is saying that whether it is a trial of strength or an appeal to justice, he is unable to go against God. |
| (0.30) | (Job 9:14) | 6 tn The LXX goes a different way after changing the first person to the third: “Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 9:11) | 4 sn Like the mountains, Job knows that God has passed by and caused him to shake and tremble, but he cannot understand or perceive the reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Job 7:14) | 1 sn Here Job is boldly saying that it is God who is behind the horrible dreams that he is having at night. |
| (0.30) | (Job 7:12) | 2 tn The imperfect verb here receives the classification of obligatory imperfect. Job wonders if he is such a threat to God that God must do this. |
| (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 6:10) | 1 tn Heb “and it will/may be yet my comfort.” The comfort or consolation that he seeks, that he wishes for, is death. The next colon in the verse simply intensifies this thought, for he affirms if that should happen he would rejoice, in spite of what death involves. The LXX, apparently confusing letters (reading עִיר [ʿir, “city”] instead of עוֹד [ʿod, “yet”], which then led to the mistake in the next colon, חֵילָה [khelah, “its wall”] for חִילָה [khilah, “suffering”]), has “Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 5:18) | 2 tn The addition of the independent pronoun here makes the subject emphatic, as if to say, “For it is he who makes….” |
| (0.30) | (Job 4:8) | 1 tn The perfect verb here represents the indefinite past. It has no specific sighting in mind, but refers to each time he has seen the wicked do this. |
| (0.30) | (Job 3:12) | 1 sn The sufferer is looking back over all the possible chances of death, including when he was brought forth, placed on the knees or lap, and breastfed. |
| (0.30) | (Job 2:6) | 1 tn The particle הִנּוֹ (hinno) is literally, “here he is!” God presents Job to Satan, with the restriction on preserving Job’s life. |
| (0.30) | (Job 1:3) | 3 tn The word עֲבֻדָּה (ʿavuddah, “service of household servants”) indicates that he had a very large body of servants, meaning a very large household. |
| (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) | (Est 4:13) | 1 tn Heb “Mordecai.” The pronoun (“he”) was used in the translation for stylistic reasons. A repetition of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style. |
| (0.30) | (Est 4:1) | 1 tn Heb “Mordecai.” The pronoun (“he”) was used in the translation for stylistic reasons. A repetition of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style. |
| (0.30) | (Neh 13:21) | 3 sn This statement contains a great deal of restrained humor. The author clearly takes pleasure in the effectiveness of the measures that he had enacted. |
| (0.30) | (Neh 5:14) | 1 tc The BHS editors suggest reading צֻוֵּאתִי (tsuvveʾti, “and I was appointed”) rather than the reading of the MT, אֹתִי צִוָּה (tsivvah ʾoti, “he appointed me”). |
