30:21 You have become cruel to me; 1
with the strength of your hand you attack me. 2
21:23 “One man dies in his full vigor, 3
completely secure and prosperous,
1 tn The idiom uses the Niphal verb “you are turned” with “to cruelty.” See Job 41:20b, as well as Isa 63:10.
2 tc The LXX reads this verb as “you scourged/whipped me.” But there is no reason to adopt this change.
3 tn The line has “in the bone of his perfection.” The word עֶצֶם (’etsem), which means “bone,” is used pronominally to express “the same, very”; here it is “in the very fullness of his strength” (see GKC 449 §139.g). The abstract תֹּם (tom) is used here in the sense of physical perfection and strengths.