Text -- Job 37:23-24 (NET)

37:23 As for the Almighty, we cannot attain to him! He is great in power, but justice and abundant righteousness he does not oppress. 37:24 Therefore people fear him, for he does not regard all the wise in heart.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 37:23

¹ tn The name “Almighty” is here a casus pendens, isolating the name at the front of the sentence and resuming it with a pronoun.

² tn The MT places the major disjunctive accent (the atnach) under “power,” indicating that “and justice” as a disjunctive clause starting the second half of the verse (with ESV, NASB, NIV, NLT). Ignoring the Masoretic accent, NRSV has “he is great in power and justice.”

NET Notes: Job 37:24

¹ sn The phrase “wise of heart” was used in Job 9:4 in a negative sense.