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Job 10:5

Context

10:5 Are your days like the days of a mortal,

or your years like the years 1  of a mortal,

Job 38:21

Context

38:21 You know, for you were born before them; 2 

and the number of your days is great!

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[10:5]  1 tn The Hebrew has repeated here “like the days of,” but some scholars think that this was an accidental replacement of what should be here, namely, “like the years of.” D. J. A. Clines notes that such repetition is not uncommon in Job, but suggests that the change should be made for English style even if the text is not emended (Job [WBC], 221). This has been followed in the present translation.

[38:21]  2 tn The imperfect verb after the adverb אָז (’az, “then”) functions as a preterite: “you were born.” The line is sarcastic.



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