³ tn Or “scrolls.”

¹ tn Heb “scrolls.”

³ tn Heb “scrolls.”

³ tn Heb “first [or former] scroll.”

² tn Heb “I do not know a scroll.”

¹ tn Heb “she wrote on the scrolls, saying.”

¹ tn Heb “and if the scroll is handed to one who does not know a scroll.”

² tn Heb “one who knows a/the scroll.”

² sn Written on the front and back. While it was common for papyrus scrolls to have writing on both sides, the same was not true for leather scrolls.

³ tn Heb “a scroll,” in the context referring to a scroll containing the accusations of Job’s legal adversary (see the next line).

⁴ tn Heb “until the whole scroll was consumed upon the fire that was in the fire pot.”

¹ tn Heb “Seek from upon the scroll of the Lord and read.”

¹ tc The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads “Dibon” instead of “Dimon” in this verse.

² tc The phrase “all of them” does not appear in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a.

¹ tn Heb “let them be wiped out of the scroll of the living.”

¹ sn Heb “a roll [or scroll] of a document.” Scrolls consisted of pieces of leather or parchment sewn together and rolled up on wooden rollers. The writing was written from right to left and from top to bottom in columns, and the scroll unrolled from the left roller and rolled onto the right one as the scroll was read. The scroll varied in length depending on the contents. This scroll was probably not all that long since it was read three times in a single day (vv. 10-11, 15-16, 21-23).

² tn Heb “books” or “scrolls.” The word “sacred” has been added to clarify that it refers to the Scriptures.

¹ tn The Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has מי ים (“waters of the sea”), a reading followed by NAB.

¹ tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”

⁴ tn Heb “did as Jezebel sent to them, just as was written in the scrolls which she sent to them.”