Job 32:6

So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up: ¹  “I am young, ²  but you are elderly; that is why I was fearful, ³  and afraid to explain ⁴  to you what I know.

Le 19:32; 1Sa 17:28-30; Job 15:7; Job 15:10; Ro 13:7; 1Ti 5:1; Tit 2:6; 1Pe 5:5

¹ tn Heb “answered and said.”

² tn The text has “small in days.”

³ tn The verb זָחַלְתִּי (zakhalti) is found only here in the OT, but it is found in a ninth century Aramaic inscription as well as in Biblical Aramaic. It has the meaning “to be timid” (see H. H. Rowley, Job [NCBC], 208).

⁴ tn The Piel infinitive with the preposition (מֵחַוֹּת, mekhavvot) means “from explaining.” The phrase is the complement: “explain” what Elihu feared.