19:19 All my closest friends 1 detest me;
and those whom 2 I love have turned against me. 3
41:28 Arrows 4 do not make it flee;
slingstones become like chaff to it.
1 tn Heb “men of my confidence,” or “men of my council,” i.e., intimate friends, confidants.
2 tn The pronoun זֶה (zeh) functions here in the place of a nominative (see GKC 447 §138.h).
3 tn T. Penar translates this “turn away from me” (“Job 19,19 in the Light of Ben Sira 6,11,” Bib 48 [1967]: 293-95).
4 tn Heb “the son of the bow.”