2 Samuel 19:39

19:39 So all the people crossed the Jordan, as did the king. After the king had kissed him and blessed him, Barzillai returned to his home. ¹ 

Nehemiah 11:2

11:2 The people gave their blessing on all the men who volunteered to settle in Jerusalem.

Job 29:11

Job’s Benevolence

29:11 “As soon as the ear heard these things, ²  it blessed me, ³ 

and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

Job 31:20

31:20 whose heart did not bless me ⁴ 

as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep, ⁵ 

Proverbs 31:28

31:28 Her children rise up ⁶  and call her blessed,

her husband ⁷  also praises her:

[19:39]  ¹ tn Heb “to his place.”

[29:11]  ² tn The words “these things” and “them” in the next colon are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[29:11]  ³ tn The main clause is introduced by the preterite with the vav (ו) consecutive (see GKC 327 §111.h); the clause before it is therefore temporal and circumstantial to the main clause.

[31:20]  ⁴ tn The MT has simply “if his loins did not bless me.” In the conditional clause this is another protasis. It means, “if I saw someone dying and if he did not thank me for clothing them.” It is Job’s way of saying that whenever he saw a need he met it, and he received his share of thanks – which prove his kindness. G. R. Driver has it “without his loins having blessed me,” taking “If…not” as an Aramaism, meaning “except” (AJSL 52 [1935/36]: 164f.).

[31:20]  ⁵ tn This clause is interpreted here as a subordinate clause to the first half of the verse. It could also be a separate clause: “was he not warmed…?”

[31:28]  ⁶ tn The first word of the nineteenth line begins with ק (qof), the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

[31:28]  ⁷ tn The text uses an independent nominative absolute to draw attention to her husband: “her husband, and he praises her.” Prominent as he is, her husband speaks in glowing terms of his noble wife.