Job 18:12

18:12 Calamity is ¹  hungry for him, ² 

and misfortune is ready at his side. ³ 

Job 27:7

The Condition of the Wicked

27:7 “May my enemy be like the wicked, ⁴ 

my adversary ⁵  like the unrighteous. ⁶ 

[18:12]  ¹ tn The jussive is occasionally used without its normal sense and only as an imperfect (see GKC 323 §109.k).

[18:12]  ² tn There are a number of suggestions for אֹנוֹ (’ono). Some take it as “vigor”: thus “his strength is hungry.” Others take it as “iniquity”: thus “his iniquity/trouble is hungry.”

[18:12]  ³ tn The expression means that misfortune is right there to destroy him whenever there is the opportunity.

[27:7]  ⁴ sn Of course, he means like his enemy when he is judged, not when he is thriving in prosperity and luxury.

[27:7]  ⁵ tn The form is the Hitpolel participle from קוּם (qum): “those who are rising up against me,” or “my adversary.”

[27:7]  ⁶ tc The LXX made a free paraphrase: “No, but let my enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me as the destruction of transgressors.”