9:34 who 1 would take his 2 rod 3 away from me
so that his terror 4 would not make me afraid.
73:5 They are immune to the trouble common to men;
they do not suffer as other men do. 5
1 tn The verse probably continues the description from the last verse, and so a relative pronoun may be supplied here as well.
2 tn According to some, the reference of this suffix would be to God. The arbiter would remove the rod of God from Job. But others take it as a separate sentence with God removing his rod.
3 sn The “rod” is a symbol of the power of God to decree whatever judgments and afflictions fall upon people.
4 tn “His terror” is metonymical; it refers to the awesome majesty of God that overwhelms Job and causes him to be afraid.
5 tn Heb “in the trouble of man they are not, and with mankind they are not afflicted.”