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?

Job 13:9

13:9 Would it turn out well if he would examine ⁶  you?

Or as one deceives ⁷  a man would you deceive him?

Job 27:5

27:5 I will never ⁸  declare that you three ⁹  are in the right;

until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

Job 27:11

27:11 I will teach you ¹⁰  about the power ¹¹  of God;

What is on the Almighty’s mind ¹²  I will not conceal.

Job 32:6

Elihu Claims Wisdom

32:6 So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up: ¹³ 

“I am young, ¹⁴  but you are elderly;

that is why I was fearful, ¹⁵ 

and afraid to explain ¹⁶  to you what I know.

[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.

[13:9]  ⁵ tn The verb חָפַר (khafar) means “to search out, investigate, examine.” In the conditional clause the imperfect verb expresses the hypothetical case.

[13:9]  ⁶ tn Both the infinitive and the imperfect of תָּלַל (talal, “deceive, mock”) retain the ה (he) (GKC 148 §53.q). But for the alternate form, see F. C. Fensham, “The Stem HTL in Hebrew,” VT 9 (1959): 310-11. The infinitive is used here in an adverbial sense after the preposition.

[27:5]  ⁷ tn The text uses חָלִילָה לִּי (khalilah li) meaning “far be it from me,” or more strongly, something akin to “sacrilege.”

[27:5]  ⁸ tn In the Hebrew text “you” is plural – a reference to Eliphaz, Zophar, and Bildad. To make this clear, “three” is supplied in the translation.

[27:11]  ⁹ tn The object suffix is in the plural, which gives some support to the idea Job is speaking to them.

[27:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the hand of.”

[27:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “[what is] with Shaddai.”

[32:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “answered and said.”

[32:6]  ¹² tn The text has “small in days.”

[32:6]  ¹³ tn The verb זָחַלְתִּי (zakhalti) is found only here in the OT, but it is found in a ninth century Aramaic inscription as well as in Biblical Aramaic. It has the meaning “to be timid” (see H. H. Rowley, Job [NCBC], 208).

[32:6]  ¹⁴ tn The Piel infinitive with the preposition (מֵחַוֹּת, mekhavvot) means “from explaining.” The phrase is the complement: “explain” what Elihu feared.