¹ sn The rock in Palestine would be a limestone base lying right under the soil.

⁵ tn Grk “a man was there and his right hand was withered.”

¹ sn The rocky ground in Palestine would be a limestone base lying right under the soil.

² sn The rocky ground in Palestine would be a limestone base lying right under the soil.

² tn Heb “It thoroughly burns to me”; or “It rightly burns to me.”

⁵ tn Heb “Unto good and the right in your eyes to go there, go.”

³ tn Heb “that which goes out of my lip is right in front of your face.”

¹ tn Heb “who caused to go at the right hand of Moses the arm of his splendor.”

¹ tn Heb “you, tell in order that you may be right”; NAB “prove your innocence.”

¹ tn Or “rob” (ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV); KJV “take away the right from the poor.”

¹ tn The verb means “change,” perhaps expressed in reversing decisions or removing rights.

⁴ tn Heb “[is] against uprightness.” The expression may be rendered “contrary to what is right.”

³ tn Heb “more than what is right.” This one is not giving enough, but saving for himself.

² tn The “right hand” here symbolizes God’s military strength (see v. 55).

⁴ tn Heb “a consort stands at your right hand, gold of Ophir.”

³ tn The brief line could be interpreted in a number of ways. The MT simply has “my right from God.” It could be “I am right before God,” “I am more just/right than God” (identifying the preposition as a comparative min (מִן); cf. J. E. Hartley, Job [NICOT], 463), “I will be right before God,” or “My just cause against God.”

¹ tn Heb “righteous,” but in this context it means to be innocent or in the right.

² tn The word is מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat) again, with the sense of what is right or just.

¹ tn The “arms of the orphans” are their helps or rights on which they depended for support.

³ tn The expression means that misfortune is right there to destroy him whenever there is the opportunity.