40:8 Would you indeed annul 1 my justice?
Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
9:9 He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, 2 for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’ 3
1 tn The verb פָּרַר (parar) means “to annul; to break; to frustrate.” It was one thing for Job to claim his own integrity, but it was another matter altogether to nullify God’s righteousness in the process.
2 tn Or “lawlessness” (NAB); “perversity” (NRSV). The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT, and its meaning is uncertain. The similar phrase in 7:23 has a common word for “violence.”
3 sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.