¹ tn Or “afflicted.”

¹ tn Or “affliction”; or “need.”

¹ tn Heb “the bread of affliction and the water of affliction.”

¹ tn Heb “the bread of affliction and the water of affliction.”

¹ tn Grk “momentary lightness of affliction.”

³ tn Heb “looked on my affliction.”

² tn Or “any trials”; traditionally, “any affliction.”

² tn Heb “and [in] faithfulness you afflicted me.”

¹ tn Heb “they afflicted his feet with shackles.”

³ tn Heb “our oppression and our affliction.”

² tn Heb “which they know, each his pain and his affliction.”

¹ tn Heb “afflict yourselves”; NAB “mortify yourselves”; NIV, NRSV “deny yourselves.”

² sn The parallelism suggests that the afflicted is one afflicted within his spirit, for the proverb is promoting a healthy frame of mind.

¹ sn Bildad is referring here to all the things that afflict a person and cause terror. It would then be a metonymy of effect, the cause being the afflictions.

² tn For the nuance “afflict” see the note at 1:12.

¹ tn For the nuance “afflict” see the note at 1:12.

¹ tn Heb “in the trouble of man they are not, and with mankind they are not afflicted.”

¹ tn The verb is נָכָה (nakhah, “struck, smote”); it can be rendered in this context as “afflicted.”

⁴ tn Heb “affliction,” which must refer here to Hagar’s painful groans of anguish.

² tn The parallel statements “afflict them” and “just as you have afflicted me” in the translation mirror the Hebrew wordplay between עוֹלֵל לָמוֹ (ʿolel lamo, “May you deal with them”) and עוֹלַלְתָּ לִי (ʿolalta li, “you dealt with me”).