Job 29:19

29:19 My roots reach the water,

and the dew lies on my branches all night long.

Job 31:32

31:32 But ¹  no stranger had to spend the night outside,

for I opened my doors to the traveler ²  –

Job 39:9

39:9 Is the wild ox willing to be your servant?

Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?

Job 41:22

41:22 Strength lodges in its neck,

and despair ³  runs before it.

[31:32]  ¹ tn This verse forms another parenthesis. Job stops almost at every point now in the conditional clauses to affirm his purity and integrity.

[31:32]  ² tn The word in the MT, אֹרחַ (’orakh, “way”), is a contraction from אֹרֵחַ (’oreakh, “wayfarer”); thus, “traveler.” The same parallelism is found in Jer 14:8. The reading here “on/to the road” is meaningless otherwise.

[41:22]  ¹ tn This word, דְּאָבָה (dÿ’avah) is a hapax legomenon. But the verbal root means “to languish; to pine.” A related noun talks of dejection and despair in Deut 28:65. So here “despair” as a translation is preferable to “terror.”