Job 16:22

16:22 For the years that lie ahead are few, ¹ 

and then I will go on the way of no return. ² 

Job 34:8

34:8 He goes about ³  in company ⁴  with evildoers,

he goes along ⁵  with wicked men. ⁶ 

[16:22]  ¹ tn The expression is “years of number,” meaning that they can be counted, and so “the years are few.” The verb simply means “comes” or “lie ahead.”

[16:22]  ² tn The verbal expression “I will not return” serves here to modify the journey that he will take. It is “the road [of] I will not return.”

[34:8]  ³ tn The perfect verb with the vav (ו) consecutive carries the sequence forward from the last description.

[34:8]  ⁴ tn The word חֶבְרַה (khevrah, “company”) is a hapax legomenon. But its meaning is clear enough from the connections to related words and this context as well.

[34:8]  ⁵ tn The infinitive construct with the ל (lamed) preposition may continue the clause with the finite verb (see GKC 351 §114.p).

[34:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “men of wickedness”; the genitive is attributive (= “wicked men”).