Job 11:14

11:14 if ¹  iniquity is in your hand – put it far away, ² 

and do not let evil reside in your tents.

Job 18:15

18:15 Fire resides in his tent; ³ 

over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

Joshua 7:13-16

7:13 Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this: ‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because the Lord God of Israel says, “You are contaminated, ⁴  O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.” ⁵  7:14 In the morning you must approach in tribal order. ⁶  The tribe the Lord selects ⁷  must approach by clans. The clan the Lord selects must approach by families. ⁸  The family the Lord selects must approach man by man. ⁹  7:15 The one caught with the riches ¹⁰  must be burned up ¹¹  along with all who belong to him, because he violated the Lord’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

7:16 Bright and early the next morning Joshua made Israel approach in tribal order ¹²  and the tribe of Judah was selected.

Isaiah 33:15

33:15 The one who lives ¹³  uprightly ¹⁴ 

and speaks honestly;

the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures

and rejects a bribe; ¹⁵ 

the one who does not plot violent crimes ¹⁶ 

and does not seek to harm others ¹⁷  –

Zechariah 5:3-4

5:3 The speaker went on to say, “This is a curse ¹⁸  traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals ¹⁹  will be removed from the community; or on the other hand (according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate.” 5:4 “I will send it out,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”

¹ tn Verse 14 should be taken as a parenthesis and not a continuation of the protasis, because it does not fit with v. 13 in that way (D. J. A. Clines, Job [WBC], 256).

² tn Many commentators follow the Vulgate and read the line “if you put away the sin that is in your hand.” They do this because the imperative comes between the protasis (v. 13) and the apodosis (v. 15) and does not appear to be clearly part of the protasis. The idea is close to the MT, but the MT is much more forceful – if you find sin in your hand, get rid of it.

³ tn This line is difficult as well. The verb, again a third feminine form, says “it dwells in his tent.” But the next part (מִבְּלִי לוֹ, mibbÿli lo) means something like “things of what are not his.” The best that can be made of the MT is “There shall live in his tent they that are not his” (referring to persons and animals; see J. E. Hartley, Job [NICOT], 279). G. R. Driver and G. B. Gray (Job [ICC], 2:161) refer “that which is naught of his” to weeds and wild animals. M. Dahood suggested a reading מַבֶּל (mabbel) and a connection to Akkadian nablu, “fire” (cf. Ugaritic nbl). The interchange of m and n is not a problem, and the parallelism with the next line makes good sense (“Some Northwest Semitic words in Job,” Bib 38 [1957]: 312ff.). Others suggest an emendation to get “night-hag” or vampire. This suggestion, as well as Driver’s “mixed herbs,” are linked to the idea of exorcism. But if a change is to be made, Dahood’s is the most compelling.

⁴ tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] [is] in your midst.”

⁵ tn Heb “remove what is set apart [i.e., to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”

⁶ tn Heb “by your tribes.”

⁷ tn Heb “takes forcefully, seizes.”

⁸ tn Heb “houses.”

⁹ tn Heb “by men.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “with what was set apart [to the Lord].”

¹¹ tn Heb “burned with fire.”

¹² tn Heb “by tribes.”

¹³ tn Heb “walks” (so NASB, NIV).

¹⁴ tn Or, possibly, “justly”; NAB “who practices virtue.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “[who] shakes off his hands from grabbing hold of a bribe.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “[who] shuts his ear from listening to bloodshed.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “[who] closes his eyes from seeing evil.”

¹⁸ tn The Hebrew word translated “curse” (אָלָה, ’alah) alludes to the covenant sanctions that attend the violation of God’s covenant with Israel (cf. Deut 29:12, 14, 20-21).

¹⁹ sn Stealing and swearing falsely (mentioned later in this verse) are sins against mankind and God respectively and are thus violations of the two major parts of the Ten Commandments. These two stipulations (commandments 8 and 3) represent the whole law.