Job 11:5

11:5 But if only God would speak, ¹ 

if only he would open his lips against you, ² 

Job 30:9

Job’s Indignities

30:9 “And now I have become their taunt song;

I have become a byword ³  among them.

[11:5]  ¹ tn The wish formula מִי־יִתֵּן (mi yitten, “who will give”; see GKC 477 §151.b) is followed here by an infinitive (Exod 16:3; 2 Sam 19:1).

[11:5]  ² sn Job had expressed his eagerness to challenge God; Zophar here wishes that God would take up that challenge.

[30:9]  ³ tn The idea is that Job has become proverbial, people think of misfortune and sin when they think of him. The statement uses the ordinary word for “word” (מִלָּה, millah), but in this context it means more: “proverb; byword.”