Text -- Job 30:30-31 (NET)

30:30 My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever. 30:31 My harp is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 30:30

¹ tn The MT has “become dark from upon me,” prompting some editions to supply the verb “falls from me” (RSV, NRSV), or “peels” (NIV).

² tn The word “my bones” may be taken as a metonymy of subject, the bony framework indicating the whole body.

³ tn The word חֹרֶב (khorev) also means “heat.” The heat in this line is not that of the sun, but obviously a fever.

NET Notes: Job 30:31

¹ tn The verb הָיָה (hayah, “to be”) followed by the preposition ל (lamed) means “to serve the purpose of” (see Gen 1:14ff., 17:7, etc.).