¹ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”

¹ tn Grk “I agree with the law that it is good.”

¹ tn Grk “agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day.”

² tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made” or “agreed to.”

³ tn The participle “dead” is singular, agreeing in form with “Egypt.”

⁴ tn Heb “him,” agreeing with the singular form in the preceding line.

³ tc Many Hebrew mss agree with the Qere in reading simply “God.”

⁵ tn Literally “her” (a feminine pronoun agreeing with “soul/life,” which is grammatically feminine).

¹ tn The verb is singular, agreeing with the first of the compound subject—Aaron.

³ tn Heb “his” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); this is singular agreeing with “Esau” in the previous line.

² tn Heb “his.” The pronoun has been translated as plural to agree with the representative or typical “godly” in v. 30.

¹ tc Many Hebrew mss and ancient textual witnesses agree with the Qere in reading this as singular, “your servant.”

³ tn The verb is plural in Hebrew, agreeing grammatically with the divine name, which is a plural of degree.

³ tn Heb “its people” (“its” is feminine to agree with “person,” literally “soul,” which is feminine in Hebrew; cf. v. 29).

² sn The term agree means “match” or “harmonize with.” James’ point in the introduction argues that many of the OT prophets taught this. He gives one example (which follows).

² tn Heb “it” (so NAB, NASB). Contemporary English more naturally uses a plural pronoun to agree with “the lame and sick” in the previous question (cf. NIV, NCV).

¹ tn Heb “in the autumn house.” Commentators are agreed that this was not a separate building or palace but the winter quarters in the palace.

² tn The form צֹפוֹת (tsofot, “watching”) is a feminine plural participle agreeing with “eyes.” God’s watching eyes comfort good people but convict evil.

⁵ tn Heb “him.” The translation uses the plural “them” to agree with the plural “every one of your faithful followers” in the first line of v. 6.

⁴ tn The verb can mean that they “agreed together,” but it also (and more likely) means that they came together at a meeting point to go visit Job together.