⁴ tn Heb “grow white.”

³ tn Heb “grow weak.”

³ tn Or perhaps, “grow old.”

¹ tn Heb “my spirit grows faint.”

¹ tn Heb “my spirit grows faint.”

¹ tn Heb “old [produce] growing old.”

⁴ tn Heb “you do not grow weak.”

⁵ tn Heb “and the nations for fire, and they grow weary.”

² tn Heb “when the glory of his house grows great.”

³ tn Heb “gather mallow,” a plant which grows in salt marshes.

⁵ tn The Piel infinitive absolute functions as a verb in this passage; the Piel carries the sense of “grow lengthy” or “let grow long.”

² tn The words “as you grow” are not in the Greek text, but seem to be implied.

¹ tn The words “will grow” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹ tn The Hiphil of זָקַן (zaqan, “to be old”) is here an internal causative, “to grow old.”

³ tn Heb “the land,” which stands here by metonymy for the vegetation growing in it.

² tn Heb “for all my deliverance and every desire, surely does he not make [it] grow?”

⁴ tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.

⁴ sn In this context fear refers by metonymy to obedience that grows from faith.

¹ sn H. H. Rowley observes the use of the words for plants that grow in Egypt and suspects that Bildad either knew Egypt or knew that much wisdom came from Egypt. The first word refers to papyrus, which grows to a height of six feet (so the verb means “to grow tall; to grow high”). The second word refers to the reed grass that grows on the banks of the river (see Gen 41:2, 18).

² tn Heb “they grow and produce fruit.” For the nuance “grow” for the verb, which normally means “go, walk,” see BDB 232 s.v. חָלַךְ Qal.I.3 and compare Hos 14:7.