Discovery Box| (0.03) | (Job 19:6) | 3 tn The verb נָקַף (naqaf) means “to turn; to make a circle; to encircle.” It means that God has encircled or engulfed Job with his net. |
| (0.03) | (Job 18:21) | 2 tn The word “place” is in construct; the clause following it replaces the genitive: “this is the place of—he has not known God.” |
| (0.03) | (Job 17:4) | 2 sn The pronoun their refers to Job’s friends. They have not pledged security for him because God has hidden or sealed off their understanding. |
| (0.03) | (Job 16:9) | 1 tn The referent of these pronouns in v. 9 (“his anger…he has gnashed…his teeth…his eyes”) is best taken as God. |
| (0.03) | (Job 16:1) | 1 sn In the next two chapters we have Job’s second reply to Eliphaz. Job now feels abandoned by God and by his friends, and so complains that this all intensifies his sufferings. But he still holds to his innocence as he continues his appeal to God as his witness. There are four sections to this speech: in vv. 2-5 he dismisses the consolation his friends offered; in vv. 6-17 he laments that he is abandoned by God and man; in 16:8-17:9 he makes his appeal to God in heaven as a witness; and finally, in 10-16 he anticipates death. |
| (0.03) | (Job 15:4) | 4 tn The word שִׂיחָה (sikhah) is “complaint; cry; meditation.” Job would be influencing people to challenge God and not to meditate before or pray to him. |
| (0.03) | (Job 14:16) | 1 sn The hope for life after death is supported now by a description of the severity with which God deals with people in this life. |
| (0.03) | (Job 13:16) | 1 sn The fact that Job will dare to come before God and make his case is evidence—to Job at least—that he is innocent. |
| (0.03) | (Job 12:15) | 2 sn The verse is focusing on the two extremes of drought and flood. Both are described as being under the power of God. |
| (0.03) | (Job 12:17) | 4 sn The judges, like the counselors, are nobles in the cities. God may reverse their lot, either by captivity or by shame, and they cannot resist his power. |
| (0.03) | (Job 12:17) | 5 tn Some translate this “makes mad” as in Isa 44:25, but this gives the wrong connotation today; more likely God shows them to be fools. |
| (0.03) | (Job 10:2) | 2 tn The Hiphil imperative of יָדַע (yadaʿ) would more literally be “cause me to know.” It is a plea for God to help him understand the afflictions. |
| (0.03) | (Job 9:34) | 4 tn “His terror” is metonymical; it refers to the awesome majesty of God that overwhelms Job and causes him to be afraid. |
| (0.03) | (Job 9:23) | 1 sn The point of these verses is to show—rather boldly—that God does not distinguish between the innocent and the guilty. |
| (0.03) | (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. |
| (0.03) | (Job 9:13) | 3 tn The verb שָׁחַח (shakhakh) means “to be prostrate” or “to crouch.” Here the enemies are prostrate under the feet of God—they are crushed. |
| (0.03) | (Job 9:11) | 4 sn Like the mountains, Job knows that God has passed by and caused him to shake and tremble, but he cannot understand or perceive the reasons. |
| (0.03) | (Job 9:4) | 1 tn The genitive phrase translated “in heart” would be a genitive of specification, specifying that the wisdom of God is in his intelligent decisions. |
| (0.03) | (Job 8:2) | 1 sn “These things” refers to all of Job’s speech, the general drift of which seems to Bildad to question the justice of God. |
| (0.03) | (Job 7:17) | 1 tn The verse is a rhetorical question; it is intended to mean that man is too little for God to be making so much over him in all this. |
