Discovery Box| (0.50) | (Job 27:22) | 1 tn The verb is once again functioning in an adverbial sense. The text has “it hurls itself against him and shows no mercy.” |
| (0.50) | (Job 24:14) | 2 tn In a few cases the jussive is used without any real sense of the jussive being present (see GKC 323 §109.k). |
| (0.50) | (Job 21:24) | 2 tn This interpretation, adopted by several commentaries and modern translations (cf. NAB, NIV), is a general rendering to capture the sense of the line. |
| (0.50) | (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.” |
| (0.50) | (Job 20:19) | 2 tn The last clause says, “and he did not build it.” This can be understood in an adverbial sense, supplying the relative pronoun to the translation. |
| (0.50) | (Job 17:11) | 1 tn This term usually means “plans; devices” in a bad sense, although it can be used of God’s plans (see e.g., Zech 8:15). |
| (0.50) | (Job 14:9) | 1 tn The personification adds to the comparison with people—the tree is credited with the sense of smell to detect the water. |
| (0.50) | (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. |
| (0.50) | (Job 13:18) | 2 tn The verb עָרַךְ (ʿarakh) means “to set in order, set in array [as a battle], prepare” in the sense here of arrange and organize a lawsuit. |
| (0.50) | (Job 13:10) | 1 tn The verbal idea is intensified with the infinitive absolute. This is the same verb used in v. 3; here it would have the sense of “rebuke, convict.” |
| (0.50) | (Job 9:33) | 3 tn The jussive in conditional sentences retains its voluntative sense: let something be so, and this must happen as a consequence (see GKC 323 §109.i). |
| (0.50) | (Job 9:32) | 3 tn The sense of the verb “come” with “together in judgment” means “to confront one another in court.” See Ps 143:2. |
| (0.50) | (Job 6:24) | 3 tn The verb is הָבִינוּ (havinu, “to cause someone to understand”); with the ל (lamed) following, it has the sense of “explain to me.” |
| (0.50) | (Job 5:7) | 1 tn Heb “man [is].” Because “man” is used in a generic sense for humanity here, the generic “people” has been used in the translation. |
| (0.50) | (Job 3:6) | 1 tn The verb is simply לָקַח (laqakh, “to take”). Here it conveys a strong sense of seizing something and not letting it go. |
| (0.50) | (Neh 9:10) | 1 tn Heb “signs and wonders.” This phrase is a hendiadys. The second noun functions adjectivally, while the first noun retains its full nominal sense: “awesome signs” or “miraculous signs.” |
| (0.50) | (Ezr 7:10) | 2 tn Heb “to do and to teach.” The expression may be a hendiadys, in which case it would have the sense of “effectively teaching.” |
| (0.50) | (2Ch 6:27) | 1 tn The present translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense (“Certainly”). Other translations have “indeed” (NASB), “when” (NRSV), “so” (NEB), or leave the word untranslated (NIV). |
| (0.50) | (2Ki 25:4) | 2 tn The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense. |
| (0.50) | (1Ki 8:25) | 2 tn Heb “watch their way.” The Hebrew and English colloquialisms are similar. The related ideas “way” and “steps” represent behavior in a broad sense in each language. |
