Job 2:2

2:2 And the Lord said to Satan, “Where do you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, ¹  “From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.” ² 

Job 2:2

2:2 And the Lord said to Satan, “Where do you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, ³  “From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.” ⁴ 

Job 5:25

5:25 You will also know that your children ⁵  will be numerous,

and your descendants ⁶  like the grass of the earth.

¹ tn Heb “answered the Lord and said” (also in v. 4). The words “and said” here and in v. 9 have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn See the note on this phrase in 1:7.

³ tn Heb “answered the Lord and said” (also in v. 4). The words “and said” here and in v. 9 have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn See the note on this phrase in 1:7.

⁵ tn Heb “your seed.”

⁶ tn The word means “your shoots” and is parallel to “your seed” in the first colon. It refers here (as in Isa 34:1 and 42:5) to the produce of the earth. Some commentators suggest that Eliphaz seems to have forgotten or was insensitive to Job’s loss of his children; H. H. Rowley (Job [NCBC], 57) says his conventional theology is untouched by human feeling.