Text -- Job 32:22 (NET)

32:22 for I do not know how to give honorary titles, if I did, my Creator would quickly do away with me.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 32:22

¹ tn The construction uses a perfect verb followed by the imperfect. This is a form of subordination equivalent to a complementary infinitive (see GKC 385-86 §120.c).

² tn The words “if I did” are supplied in the translation to make sense out of the two clauses.

³ tn Heb “quickly carry me away.”