Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Job 22:8) | 3 tn The expression is unusual: “the one lifted up of face.” This is the “honored one,” the one to whom the dignity will be given. |
| (0.35) | (Job 21:14) | 1 sn Contrast Ps 25:4, which affirms that walking in God’s ways means to obey God’s will—the Torah. |
| (0.35) | (Job 21:16) | 2 sn Even though their life seems so good in contrast to his own plight, Job cannot and will not embrace their principles—“far be from me their counsel.” |
| (0.35) | (Job 21:3) | 2 tn The conjunction and the independent personal pronoun draw emphatic attention to the subject of the verb: “and I on my part will speak.” |
| (0.35) | (Job 20:21) | 2 sn The point throughout is that insatiable greed and ruthless plundering to satisfy it will be recompensed with utter and complete loss. |
| (0.35) | (Job 20:16) | 2 sn To take the possessions of another person is hereby compared to sucking poison from a serpent—it will kill eventually. |
| (0.35) | (Job 19:23) | 1 tn The optative is again expressed with the interrogative clause “Who will give that they be written?” Job wishes that his words be preserved long after his death. |
| (0.35) | (Job 18:6) | 1 sn This thesis of Bildad will be questioned by Job in 21:17—how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? |
| (0.35) | (Job 17:3) | 2 sn The idiom is “to strike the hand.” Here the wording is a little different, “Who is he that will strike himself into my hand?” |
| (0.35) | (Job 16:3) | 5 tn The LXX seems to have gone a different way: “What, is there any reason in vain words, or what will hinder you from answering?” |
| (0.35) | (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. |
| (0.35) | (Job 9:13) | 1 sn The meaning of the line is that God’s anger will continue until it has accomplished its purpose (23:13-14). |
| (0.35) | (Job 8:21) | 2 sn “Laughter” (and likewise “gladness”) will here be metonymies of effect or adjunct, being put in place of the reason for the joy—restoration. |
| (0.35) | (Job 8:18) | 2 sn The place where the plant once grew will deny ever knowing it. Such is the completeness of the uprooting that there is not a trace left. |
| (0.35) | (Job 7:15) | 5 tn This is one of the few words recognizable in the LXX: “You will separate life from my spirit, and yet keep my bones from death.” |
| (0.35) | (Job 7:15) | 6 tn The comparative מִן (min) after the verb “choose” will here have the idea of preferring something before another (see GKC 429-30 §133.b). |
| (0.35) | (Job 5:1) | 3 tn The LXX has rendered “holy ones” as “holy angels” (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT). The LXX has interpreted the verb in the colon too freely: “if you will see.” |
| (0.35) | (Job 4:7) | 4 tn The adjective is used here substantivally. Without the article the word stresses the meaning of “uprightness.” Job will use “innocent” and “upright” together in 17:8. |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 33:7) | 1 tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name permanently” (or perhaps “forever”). |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 21:15) | 1 tn Heb “and you [will have] a serious illness, an illness of the intestines until your intestines come out because of the illness days upon days.” |
