Job 11:11
ContextNETBible | For he 1 knows deceitful 2 men; when he sees evil, will he not 3 consider it? 4 |
XREF | Job 22:13,14; Ps 10:11,14; Ps 35:22; Ps 94:11; Ec 5:8; Jer 17:9,10; Ho 7:2; Hab 1:13; Joh 2:24,25; Heb 4:13; Re 2:23 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn The pronoun is emphatic implying that Zophar indicates that God indeed knows Job’s sin even if Job does not. 2 tn The expression is literally “men of emptiness” (see Ps 26:4). These are false men, for שָׁוְא (shavÿ’) can mean “vain, empty, or false, deceitful.” 3 tn E. Dhorme (Job, 162) reads the prepositional phrase “to him” rather than the negative; he translates the line as “he sees iniquity and observes it closely.” 4 tn Some commentators do not take this last clause as a question, but simply as a statement, namely, that when God sees evil he does not need to ponder or consider it – he knows it instantly. In that case it would be a circumstantial clause: “without considering it.” D. J. A. Clines lists quite an array of other interpretations for the line (Job [WBC], 255); for example, “and he is himself unobserved”; taking the word לֹא (lo’) as an emphatic; taking the negative as a noun, “considering them as nothing”; and others that change the verb to “they do not understand it.” But none of these are compelling; they offer no major improvement. |