Job 10:11

10:11 You clothed ¹  me with skin and flesh

and knit me together ²  with bones and sinews.

Job 21:6

21:6 For, when I think ³  about this, I am terrified ⁴ 

and my body feels a shudder. ⁵ 

Job 33:25

33:25 then his flesh is restored ⁶  like a youth’s;

he returns to the days of his youthful vigor. ⁷ 

[10:11]  ¹ tn The skin and flesh form the exterior of the body and so the image of “clothing” is appropriate. Once again the verb is the prefixed conjugation, expressing what God did.

[10:11]  ² tn This verb is found only here (related nouns are common) and in the parallel passage of Ps 139:13. The word סָכַךְ (sakhakh), here a Poel prefixed conjugation (preterite), means “to knit together.” The implied comparison is that the bones and sinews form the tapestry of the person (compare other images of weaving the life).

[21:6]  ³ tn The verb is זָכַר (zakhar, “to remember”). Here it has the sense of “to keep in memory; to meditate; to think upon.”

[21:6]  ⁴ tn The main clause is introduced here by the conjunction, following the adverbial clause of time.

[21:6]  ⁵ tn Some commentators take “shudder” to be the subject of the verb, “a shudder seizes my body.” But the word is feminine (and see the usage, especially in Job 9:6 and 18:20). It is the subject in Isa 21:4; Ps 55:6; and Ezek 7:18.

[33:25]  ⁵ tc The word רֻטֲפַשׁ (rutafash) is found nowhere else. One suggestion is that it should be יִרְטַב (yirtav, “to become fresh”), connected to רָטַב (ratav, “to be well watered [or moist]”). It is also possible that it was a combination of רָטַב (ratav, “to be well watered”) and טָפַשׁ (tafash, “to grow fat”). But these are all guesses in the commentaries.

[33:25]  ⁶ tn The word describes the period when the man is healthy and vigorous, ripe for what life brings his way.