Text -- Job 11:3 (NET)

11:3 Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 11:3

¹ tn The word means “chatter, pratings, boastings” (see Isa 16:6; Jer 48:30).

² tn The verb חָרַשׁ (kharash) in the Hiphil means “to silence” (41:4); here it functions in a causative sense, “reduce to silence.”

³ tn The form מַכְלִם (makhlim, “humiliating, mocking”) is the Hiphil participle. The verb כָּלַם (kalam) has the meaning “cover with shame, insult” (Job 20:3).

⁴ tn The construction shows the participle to be in the circumstantial clause: “will you mock – and [with] no one rebuking.”