⁵ tn Heb “[by] day I cry out, in the night before you.”

¹ tn Heb “if they are not full, they stay through the night.”

¹ tn Heb “I cause to swim through all the night my bed.”

¹ tn Heb “arose against me and surrounded against me the house at night.”

¹ tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”

² tn Heb “his father-in-law persuaded him and he again spent the night there.”

² tn Heb “Be willing and spend the night so that your heart might be good.”

³ tn Heb “and they lay in wait for him all night in the city gate.”

¹ tn Heb “Joshua came upon them suddenly, all the night he went up from Gilgal.”

² tn Heb “and they entered the camp and spent the night in the camp.”

³ tn Heb “this night is for Yahweh a vigil for all Israelites for their generations.”

² tn Heb “and he spent the night there because the sun had gone down.”

¹ tn The subject is still “that night.” Here, at the end of this first section, Job finally expresses the crime of that night—it did not hinder his birth.

² sn The statements about Anna worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day make her extreme piety clear.

² tn Grk “about the fourth watch of the night,” between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.

¹ tn Grk “In the fourth watch of the night,” that is, between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.

² tn Heb “If thieves came to you, or if plunderers of the night” (NRSV similar). The repetition here adds rhetorical emphasis.

¹ tn Heb “I wish I had in the desert a lodging place [inn, or place to spend the night] for travelers.”

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

² sn Like a bridegroom. The metaphor likens the sun to a bridegroom who rejoices on his wedding night.