¹ tn Heb “all darkness is hidden for his laid up things.” “All darkness” refers to the misfortunes and afflictions that await. The verb “hidden” means “is destined for.”

¹ sn The coming of night (and darkness in the following line) symbolizes the cessation of revelation.

¹ sn In Zeph 1:15 darkness is associated with the day of the Lord.

² tn The plural indicates degree. Darkness may refer to exile and/or moral evil.

² tn Heb “and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.”

² tn Heb “all joy turns to evening,” the darkness of evening symbolizing distress and sorrow.

¹ tn Heb “And the gate was to be shut in the darkness and the men went out.”

² tn Or “every black lamb”; Heb “and every dark sheep among the lambs.”

² tn Heb “and look, terror, a great darkness was falling on him.”

¹ tn Heb “or dark you cannot see.” Some commentators and the RSV follow the LXX in reading אוֹ (ʾo, “or”) as אוֹר (ʾor, “light”) and translate it “The light has become dark” or “Your light has become dark.” A. B. Davidson suggests the reading “Or seest thou not the darkness.” This would mean Job does not understand the true meaning of the darkness and the calamities.

³ tn Grk “variation or shadow of turning” (referring to the motions of heavenly bodies causing variations of light and darkness).

² sn Simeon may well have been from North Africa, since the Latin loanword Niger refers to someone as “dark-complexioned.”

¹ tn Heb “darkness,” which may indicate a place of hiding where a fugitive would seek shelter and protection.

³ tn Heb “they have gone down [into] the dark/inner chambers of the belly”; NASB “of the body.”

¹ sn He made it dark. The psalmist begins with the ninth plague (see Exod 10:21-29).

¹ tn This probably alludes to a sneak attack by enemies in the darkness of night (see Song 3:8).

² tn Heb “walk.” The Hitpael stem indicates iterative action, picturing these ignorant “judges” as stumbling around in the darkness.

² tn The same verb שִׂים (sim, “set”) is used this way in Isa 5:20: “…who change darkness into light.”

⁴ sn The motif of light turning to darkness is ironic when compared to v. 20. There the sinners turn light (= moral/ethical good) to darkness (= moral/ethical evil). Now ironically the Lord will turn light (= the sinners’ sphere of existence and life) into darkness (= the judgment and death).

⁴ tn This expression is open to alternative translations: (1) It could mean that they say in the face of darkness, “Light is near.” (2) It could also mean “The light is near the darkness” or “The light is nearer than the darkness.”