⁵ tn Heb “to drive out.”

¹ tn Or “drive away”; Grk “cast out.”

¹ tn Heb “and the driving is like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi.”

² tn The verb נָהַג (nahag) means “drive, conduct.” It is elsewhere used for driving sheep, leading armies, or leading in processions.

² sn Luke portrays the Jewish leadership as driving events toward the cross by vehemently accusing Jesus.

⁴ tn Heb “[As for] Ashdod, at noon they will drive her away.”

² tn Heb “send”; cf. NASB “send you forth,” NAB “drive,” NIV “force.”

³ tn Heb “…drive you out, and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying lies.”

³ tn Heb “only from his lofty place [or perhaps, “dignity”] they plan to drive [him] away.”

² tn The verb תָקַע (taqaʿ) means “to strike, drive, blow a trumpet.”

⁴ sn The image of the powerful wild ox continues; see the note on the phrase “drive back” in the preceding line.

¹ sn Here Job changes the metaphor again, to the driving storm. God has sent his storms, and Job is blown away.

² tn The clause is וַיְנַהֲגֵהוּ בִּכְבֵדֻת (vayenahagehu bikhevedut). The verb means “to drive a chariot”; here in the Piel it means “cause to drive.” The suffix is collective, and so the verbal form can be translated “and caused them to drive.” The idea of the next word is “heaviness” or “hardship”; it recalls the previous uses of related words to describe Pharaoh’s heart. Here it indicates that the driving of the crippled chariots was with difficulty.

⁴ sn The rebuke “Who warned you to flee…?” compares the crowd to snakes who flee their desert holes when the heat of a fire drives them out.

⁵ tn Heb “the wind of the Lord drives it on.” The term רוּחַ (ruakh) could be translated “breath” here (see 30:28).

² sn The Hebrew verb translated “drive back” is literally “gore”; the imagery is that of a powerful wild ox that “gores” its enemies and tramples them underfoot.

¹ tn The “driving winds” reflects the Hebrew “from the scatterers.” This refers to the north winds that bring the cold air and the ice and snow and hard rains.

¹ tn Heb “did you not drive out . . . ?” This is another rhetorical question which expects a positive response; see the note on the word “heaven” in the previous verse.

¹ tn The verb is a Hiphil imperfect of יָרַשׁ (yarash), which means “to possess.” In the causative stem it can mean “dispossess” or “drive out.”

³ tn The words are emphatic: גָּרֵשׁ יְגָרֵשׁ (garesh y^egaresh). The Piel verb means “to drive out, expel.” With the infinitive absolute it says that Pharaoh “will drive you out vigorously.” He will be glad to be rid of you—it will be a total expulsion.