Job 20:24

20:24 If he flees from an iron weapon,

then an arrow ¹  from a bronze bow pierces him.

Job 39:21

39:21 It ²  paws the ground in the valley, ³ 

exulting mightily, ⁴ 

it goes out to meet the weapons.

[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.

[39:21]  ² tc The Hebrew text has a plural verb, “they paw.” For consistency and for stylistic reasons this is translated as a singular.

[39:21]  ³ tn The armies would prepare for battles that were usually fought in the valleys, and so the horse was ready to charge. But in Ugaritic the word `mk means “force” as well as “valley.” The idea of “force” would fit the parallelism here well (see M. Dahood, “Value of Ugaritic for textual criticism,” Bib 40 [1959]: 166).

[39:21]  ⁴ tn Or “in strength.”