Job 13:1

Job Pleads His Cause to God ¹ 

13:1 “Indeed, my eyes have seen all this, ² 

my ears have heard and understood it.

Job 29:11

Job’s Benevolence

29:11 “As soon as the ear heard these things, ³  it blessed me, ⁴ 

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

Job 32:10

32:10 Therefore I say, ‘Listen ⁵  to me.

I, even I, will explain what I know.’

Job 34:16

God Is Impartial and Omniscient

34:16 “If you have ⁶  understanding, listen to this,

hear what I have to say. ⁷ 

[13:1]  ¹ sn Chapter 13 records Job’s charges against his friends for the way they used their knowledge (1-5), his warning that God would find out their insincerity (6-12), and his pleading of his cause to God in which he begs for God to remove his hand from him and that he would not terrify him with his majesty and that he would reveal the sins that caused such great suffering (13-28).

[13:1]  ² tn Hebrew has כֹּל (kol, “all”); there is no reason to add anything to the text to gain a meaning “all this.”

[29:11]  ³ 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]  ⁴ 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.

[32:10]  ⁵ tc In most Hebrew mss this imperative is singular, and so addressed to Job. But two Hebrew mss and the versions have the plural. Elihu was probably addressing all of them.

[34:16]  ⁷ tn The phrase “you have” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.

[34:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “the sound of my words.”