Job 19:19

19:19 All my closest friends ¹  detest me;

and those whom ²  I love have turned against me. ³ 

Job 21:25

21:25 And another man ⁴  dies in bitterness of soul, ⁵ 

never having tasted ⁶  anything good.

[19:19]  ¹ tn Heb “men of my confidence,” or “men of my council,” i.e., intimate friends, confidants.

[19:19]  ² tn The pronoun זֶה (zeh) functions here in the place of a nominative (see GKC 447 §138.h).

[19:19]  ³ tn T. Penar translates this “turn away from me” (“Job 19,19 in the Light of Ben Sira 6,11,” Bib 48 [1967]: 293-95).

[21:25]  ⁴ tn The expression “this (v. 23)…and this” (v. 25) means “one…the other.”

[21:25]  ⁵ tn The text literally has “and this [man] dies in soul of bitterness.” Some simply reverse it and translate “in the bitterness of soul.” The genitive “bitterness” may be an attribute adjective, “with a bitter soul.”

[21:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “eaten what is good.” It means he died without having enjoyed the good life.