Text -- Job 30:2 (NET)

30:2 Moreover, the strength of their hands– what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 30:2

¹ tn The reference is to the fathers of the scorners, who are here regarded as weak and worthless.

² tn The word כֶּלַח (kelakh) only occurs in Job 5:26; but the Arabic cognate gives this meaning “strength.” Others suggest כָּלַח (kalakh, “old age”), ֹכּל־חַיִל (kol-khayil, “all vigor”), כֹּל־לֵחַ (kol-leakh, “all freshness”), and the like. But there is no reason for such emendation.