Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Job 20:9) | 1 tn Heb “the eye that had seen him.” Here a part of the person (the eye, the instrument of vision) is put by metonymy for the entire person. |
| (0.30) | (Job 19:14) | 1 tn The Pual participle is used for those “known” to him, or with whom he is “familiar,” whereas קָרוֹב (qarov, “near”) is used for a relative. |
| (0.30) | (Job 19:18) | 1 sn The use of the verb “rise” is probably fairly literal. When Job painfully tries to get up and walk, the little boys make fun of him. |
| (0.30) | (Job 19:5) | 3 sn Job’s friends have been using his shame, his humiliation in all his sufferings, as proof against him in their case. |
| (0.30) | (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. |
| (0.30) | (Job 15:6) | 2 tn The verb עָנָה (ʿanah) with the ל (lamed) preposition following it means “to testify against.” For Eliphaz, it is enough to listen to Job to condemn him. |
| (0.30) | (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. |
| (0.30) | (Job 13:13) | 3 tn The verb עָבַר (ʿavar, “pass over”) is used with the preposition עַל (ʿal, “upon”) to express the advent of misfortune, namely, something coming against him. |
| (0.30) | (Job 11:11) | 3 tn E. Dhorme (Job, 162) reads the prepositional phrase “to him” rather than the negative; he translates the line as “he sees iniquity and observes it closely.” |
| (0.30) | (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. |
| (0.30) | (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. |
| (0.30) | (Job 9:11) | 3 tn The pronoun “him” is supplied here; it is not in MT, but the Syriac and Vulgate have it (probably for translation purposes as well). |
| (0.30) | (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. |
| (0.30) | (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. |
| (0.30) | (Job 7:13) | 3 sn Sleep is the recourse of the troubled and unhappy. Here “bed” is metonymical for sleep. Job expects sleep to give him the comfort that his friends have not. |
| (0.30) | (Job 1:12) | 4 tn The Hebrew word order emphatically holds out Job’s person as the exception: “only upon him do not stretch forth your hand.” |
| (0.30) | (Est 5:9) | 2 tn Heb “tremble from before him”; NIV “nor showed fear in his presence”; TEV “or show any sign of respect as he passed.” |
| (0.30) | (Est 1:10) | 2 tn Heb “King Ahasuerus”; here the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun “him” in the translation for stylistic reasons. Cf. similarly NIV, NCV, CEV, NLT “King Xerxes.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 32:31) | 1 tn Heb “and when the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire concerning the sign which was in the land, [arrived].” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 16:4) | 1 tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.” |
