² tn Heb “for into a covenant of the Lord you have brought your servant with you.”

² tn Heb “and 30 daughters he brought for his sons from the outside.”

³ tn Heb “and he brought over them the sea and covered them.”

¹ tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”

³ tn Heb “They brought back word”; the verb is the Hiphil preterite of שׁוּב (shuv).

² tn Heb “and God brought into his hand.” The death is unintended, its circumstances outside human control.

² tn The infinitive construct here explains how they brought trouble on Jacob.

¹ tn Heb “and it happened in the evening that he took Leah his daughter and brought her.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he brought”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Grk “having brought them.” The participle ἐπιλαβόμενοι (epilabomenoi) has been taken temporally. It is also possible in English to translate this participle as a finite verb: “they brought them before the magistrates and said.”

² tn Grk “the disciples scolded them.” In the translation the referent has been specified as “those who brought them,” since otherwise the statement could be understood to mean that the disciples scolded the children rather than their parents who brought them.

² tn Heb “but empty the Lord has brought me back.” The disjunctive clause structure (vav + adverb + verb + subject) highlights the contrast between her former condition and present situation. Cf. TEV “has brought me back without a thing.”

⁴ tc Many of the versions have “I will bring you out” (active) rather than “he brought out” (the reading of MT).

⁶ tn Heb “and she came down in an astonishing way,” or “and she was brought down in an astonishing way.”

² tn Heb “and I brought down to the ground their juice.” “Juice” refers to their blood (see v. 3).

² tn Heb “bows it [= his heart] down.” Anxiety weighs heavily on the heart, causing depression. The spirit is brought low.

¹ sn “These things” refers to the affliction that God had brought on Job. They were concealed by God from the beginning.

⁵ tn Heb “This the sons of Ammon brought to him, and in the second year and the third.”

² tn Heb “Look, my master spared this Syrian Naaman by not taking from his hand what he brought.”

¹ tn Heb “and all the army brought near, each his ox by his hand, and they slaughtered there.”