Job 17:10

Anticipation of Death

17:10 “But turn, all of you, ¹  and come ²  now! ³ 

I will not find a wise man among you.

Malachi 3:18

3:18 Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between ⁴  the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

[17:10]  ¹ tn The form says “all of them.” Several editors would change it to “all of you,” but the lack of concord is not surprising; the vocative elsewhere uses the third person (see Mic 1:2; see also GKC 441 §135.r).

[17:10]  ² tn The first verb, the jussive, means “to return”; the second verb, the imperative, means “to come.” The two could be taken as a hendiadys, the first verb becoming adverbial: “to come again.”

[17:10]  ³ tn Instead of the exact correspondence between coordinate verbs, other combinations occur – here we have a jussive and an imperative (see GKC 386 §120.e).

[3:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “you will see between.” Cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT “see the difference.”