Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Job 29:2) | 2 tn The preposition כ (kaf) is used here in an expression describing the state desired, especially in the former time (see GKC 376 §118.u). |
| (0.30) | (Job 29:2) | 4 tn The construct state (“days of”) governs the independent sentence that follows (see GKC 422 §130.d): “as the days of […] God used to watch over me.” |
| (0.30) | (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). |
| (0.30) | (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). |
| (0.30) | (Job 24:22) | 2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity. See the note on the word “life” at the end of the line. |
| (0.30) | (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). |
| (0.30) | (Job 23:10) | 2 tn There is a perfect verb followed by an imperfect in this clause with the protasis and apodosis relationship (see GKC 493 §159.b). |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:27) | 2 tn For the meaning of this word, and its root זָמַם (zamam), see Job 17:11. It usually means the “plans” or “schemes” that are concocted against someone. |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:22) | 2 tn The clause begins with the disjunctive vav (ו) and the pronoun, “and he.” This is to be subordinated as a circumstantial clause. See GKC 456 §142.d. |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:3) | 1 tn The verb נָשָׂא (nasaʾ) means “to lift up; to raise up,” but in this context it means “to endure; to tolerate” (see Job 7:21). |
| (0.30) | (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). |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:2) | 1 tn The intensity of the appeal is again expressed by the imperative followed by the infinitive absolute for emphasis. See note on “listen carefully” in 13:17. |
| (0.30) | (Job 18:21) | 1 tn The term is in the plural, “the tabernacles”; it should be taken as a plural of local extension (see GKC 397 §124.b). |
| (0.30) | (Job 19:3) | 1 sn The number “ten” is a general expression to convey that this has been done often (see Gen 31:7; Num 14:22). |
| (0.30) | (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). |
| (0.30) | (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). |
| (0.30) | (Job 16:18) | 2 tn The word is simply “a place,” but in the context it surely means a hidden place, a secret place that would never be discovered (see 18:21). |
| (0.30) | (Job 16:13) | 3 tn The verb פָּלַח (palakh) in the Piel means “to pierce” (see Prov 7:23). A fuller comparison should be made with Lam 3:12-13. |
| (0.30) | (Job 16:4) | 4 sn The action is a sign of mockery (see Ps 22:7 [8]; Isa 37:22; Matt 27:39). |
| (0.30) | (Job 16:3) | 4 tn The Hiphil of מָרַץ (marats) does not occur anywhere else. The word means “to compel; to force” (see 6:25). |
