Job 13:10-11

13:10 He would certainly rebuke ¹  you

if you secretly ²  showed partiality!

13:11 Would not his splendor ³  terrify ⁴  you

and the fear he inspires ⁵  fall on you?

[13:10]  ¹ tn The verbal idea is intensified with the infinitive absolute. This is the same verb used in v. 3; here it would have the sense of “rebuke, convict.”

[13:10]  ² sn The use of the word “in secret” or “secretly” suggests that what they do is a guilty action (31:27a).

[13:11]  ³ sn The word translated “his majesty” or “his splendor” (שְׂאֵתוֹ, sÿ’eto) forms a play on the word “show partiality” (תִּשָּׂאוּן, tissa’un) in the last verse. They are both from the verb נָשַׂא (nasa’, “to lift up”).

[13:11]  ⁴ tn On this verb in the Piel, see 7:14.

[13:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “His dread”; the suffix is a subjective genitive.