Text -- Job 33:24 (NET)

33:24 and if God is gracious to him and says, ‘Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,’

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 33:24

¹ tn This verse seems to continue the protasis begun in the last verse, with the apodosis coming in the next verse.

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tc The verb is either taken as an anomalous form of פָּדַע (pada’, “to rescue; to redeem,” or “to exempt him”), or it is emended to some similar word, like פָּרַע (para’, “to let loose,” so Wright).

⁴ sn This verse and v. 28 should be compared with Ps 49:7-9, 15 (8-10, 16 HT) where the same basic vocabulary and concepts are employed.