15:35 They conceive 1 trouble and bring forth evil;
their belly 2 prepares deception.”
31:5 If 3 I have walked in falsehood,
and if 4 my foot has hastened 5 to deceit –
1 tn Infinitives absolute are used in this verse in the place of finite verbs. They lend a greater vividness to the description, stressing the basic meaning of the words.
2 tn At the start of the speech Eliphaz said Job’s belly was filled with the wind; now it is there that he prepares deception. This inclusio frames the speech.
3 tn The normal approach is to take this as the protasis, and then have it resumed in v. 7 after a parenthesis in v. 6. But some take v. 6 as the apodosis and a new protasis in v. 7.
4 tn The “if” is understood by the use of the consecutive verb.
5 sn The verbs “walk” and “hasten” (referring in the verse to the foot) are used metaphorically for the manner of life Job lived.