Job 20:24

20:24 If he flees from an iron weapon,

then an arrow ¹  from a bronze bow pierces him.

Job 29:20

29:20 My glory ²  will always be fresh ³  in me,

and my bow ever new in my hand.’

[20:24]  ¹ tn Heb “a bronze bow pierces him.” The words “an arrow from” are implied and are supplied in the translation; cf. “pulls it out” in the following verse.

[29:20]  ² tn The word is “my glory,” meaning his high respect and his honor. Hoffmann proposed to read כִּידוֹן (kidon) instead, meaning “javelin” (as in 1 Sam 17:6), to match the parallelism (RQ 3 [1961/62]: 388). But the parallelism does not need to be so tight.

[29:20]  ³ tn Heb “new.”