Job 10:13

10:13 “But these things ¹  you have concealed in your heart;

I know that this ²  is with you: ³ 

Job 22:22

22:22 Accept instruction ⁴  from his mouth

and store up his words ⁵  in your heart.

[10:13]  ¹ sn “These things” refers to the affliction that God had brought on Job. They were concealed by God from the beginning.

[10:13]  ² sn The meaning of the line is that this was God’s purpose all along. “These things” and “this” refer to the details that will now be given in the next few verses.

[10:13]  ³ sn The contradiction between how God had provided for and cared for Job’s life and how he was now dealing with him could only be resolved by Job with the supposition that God had planned this severe treatment from the first as part of his plan.

[22:22]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew word here is תּוֹרָה (torah), its only occurrence in the book of Job.

[22:22]  ⁵ tc M. Dahood has “write his words” (“Metaphor in Job 22:22,” Bib 47 [1966]: 108-9).