1 tc Heb “I heard the sound of his words.” These words are absent in the LXX and the Syriac.
2 tn Heb “as I listened to the sound of his words.”
3 tn Heb “Behold.”
4 tc So most Hebrew
5 tn Heb “my lord,” here a title of polite address. Cf. v. 19.
6 tn Heb “How is the servant of this my lord able to speak with this my lord?”
7 tn Heb “does not stand.”
8 tn Heb “He added and touched me.” The construction is a verbal hendiadys.
9 tn Heb “treasured man.”
10 tn Heb “my lord may speak.”