Discovery Box| (0.02) | (Job 27:2) | 2 tn “My judgment” would here, as before, be “my right.” God has taken this away by afflicting Job unjustly (A. B. Davidson, Job, 187). |
| (0.02) | (Job 26:11) | 2 sn The idea here is that when the earth quakes, or when there is thunder in the heavens, these all represent God’s rebuke, for they create terror. |
| (0.02) | (Job 25:4) | 1 sn Bildad here does not come up with new expressions; rather, he simply uses what Eliphaz had said (see Job 4:17-19 and 15:14-16). |
| (0.02) | (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). |
| (0.02) | (Job 24:18) | 4 sn The wicked person is described here as a spray or foam upon the waters, built up in the agitation of the waters but dying away swiftly. |
| (0.02) | (Job 24:19) | 1 tn Or “dryness.” The term צִיָּה (tsiyyah) normally refers to a dry region, a wilderness or desert. Here the focus is on dryness. |
| (0.02) | (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. |
| (0.02) | (Job 22:8) | 2 tn Heb “and a man of arm, to whom [was] land.” The line is in contrast to the preceding one, and so the vav here introduces a concessive clause. |
| (0.02) | (Job 22:2) | 1 tn Some do not take this to be parallel to the first colon, taking this line as a statement, but the parallel expressions here suggest the question is repeated. |
| (0.02) | (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. |
| (0.02) | (Job 21:24) | 3 tn The verb שָׁקָה (shaqah) means “to water” and here “to be watered thoroughly.” The picture in the line is that of health and vigor. |
| (0.02) | (Job 21:21) | 1 tn Heb “his desire.” The meaning is that after he is gone he does not care about what happens to his household (“house” meaning “family” here). |
| (0.02) | (Job 21:6) | 1 tn The verb is זָכַר (zakhar, “to remember”). Here it has the sense of “to keep in memory; to meditate; to think upon.” |
| (0.02) | (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). |
| (0.02) | (Job 20:18) | 2 tn Heb “and he does not swallow.” In the context this means “consume” for his own pleasure and prosperity. The verbal clause is here taken adverbially. |
| (0.02) | (Job 20:9) | 1 tn Heb “the eye that had seen him.” Here a part of the person (the eye, the instrument of vision) is put by metonymy for the entire person. |
| (0.02) | (Job 19:10) | 2 tn The text has הָלַךְ (halakh, “to leave”). But in view of Job 14:20, “perish” or “depart” would be a better meaning here. |
| (0.02) | (Job 19:10) | 4 tn The NEB has “my tent rope,” but that seems too contrived here. It is absurd to pull up a tent-rope like a tree. |
| (0.02) | (Job 18:11) | 1 sn Bildad is referring here to all the things that afflict a person and cause terror. It would then be a metonymy of effect, the cause being the afflictions. |
| (0.02) | (Job 17:10) | 3 tn Instead of the exact correspondence between coordinate verbs, other combinations occur—here we have a jussive and an imperative (see GKC 386 §120.e). |
