Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Job 23:14) | 2 sn The text is saying that many similar situations are under God’s rule of the world—his plans are infinite. |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:34) | 1 tn The word מָעַל (maʿal) is used for “treachery; deception; fraud.” Here Job is saying that their way of interpreting reality is dangerously unfaithful. |
| (0.30) | (Job 20:19) | 2 tn The last clause says, “and he did not build it.” This can be understood in an adverbial sense, supplying the relative pronoun to the translation. |
| (0.30) | (Job 19:27) | 4 tn Heb “fail/grow faint in my breast.” Job is saying that he has expended all his energy with his longing for vindication. |
| (0.30) | (Job 19:4) | 1 tn Job has held to his innocence, so the only way that he could say “I have erred” (שָׁגִיתִי, shagiti) is in a hypothetical clause like this. |
| (0.30) | (Job 15:2) | 2 tn The image is rather graphic. It is saying that he puffs himself up with the wind and then brings out of his mouth blasts of this wind. |
| (0.30) | (Job 12:13) | 2 sn A. B. Davidson (Job, 91) says, “These attributes of God’s [sic] confound and bring to nought everything bearing the same name among men.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 12:3) | 3 tn Heb “With whom are not such things as these?” The point is that everyone knows the things that these friends have been saying—they are commonplace. |
| (0.30) | (Job 9:29) | 2 tn The demonstrative pronoun is included to bring particular emphasis to the question, as if to say, “Why in the world…” (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 24, §118). |
| (0.30) | (Job 9:19) | 3 sn Job is saying that whether it is a trial of strength or an appeal to justice, he is unable to go against God. |
| (0.30) | (Job 7:14) | 1 sn Here Job is boldly saying that it is God who is behind the horrible dreams that he is having at night. |
| (0.30) | (Job 5:18) | 2 tn The addition of the independent pronoun here makes the subject emphatic, as if to say, “For it is he who makes….” |
| (0.30) | (Job 5:4) | 4 tn The text simply says “and there is no deliverer.” The entire clause could be subordinated to the preceding clause, and rendered simply “without a deliverer.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 3:9) | 3 tn The absolute state אַיִן (ʾayin, “there is none”) is here used as a verbal predicate (see GKC 480 §152.k). The concise expression literally says “and none.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 28:13) | 1 tn Heb “for to the guilt of the Lord upon us you are saying to add to our sins and our guilty deeds.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 28:8) | 1 tn The words “I say this” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 19:25) | 2 tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The rhetorical question expresses the Lord’s amazement that anyone might be ignorant of what he is about to say. |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 2:17) | 1 tn Heb “Say to Solomon the king, for he will not turn back your face, that he might give to me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife.” |
| (0.30) | (1Sa 28:8) | 1 tn Heb “Use divination for me with the ritual pit and bring up for me the one whom I say to you.” |
| (0.30) | (Rut 3:5) | 4 tn Heb “everything which you are saying I will do.” The Hebrew word order emphasizes Ruth’s intention to follow Naomi’s instructions to the letter. |
