Job 3:19

3:19 Small and great are ¹  there,

and the slave is free ²  from his master. ³ 

Job 23:7

23:7 There ⁴  an upright person

could present his case ⁵  before him,

and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

Job 34:22

34:22 There is no darkness, and no deep darkness,

where evildoers can hide themselves. ⁶ 

Job 35:12

35:12 Then ⁷  they cry out – but he does not answer –

because of the arrogance of the wicked.

Job 39:30

39:30 And its young ones devour the blood,

and where the dead carcasses ⁸  are,

there it is.”

[3:19]  ¹ tn The versions have taken the pronoun in the sense of the verb “to be.” Others give it the sense of “the same thing,” rendering the verse as “small and great, there is no difference there.” GKC 437 §135.a, n. 1, follows this idea with a meaning of “the same.”

[3:19]  ² tn The LXX renders this as “unafraid,” although the negative has disappeared in some mss to give the reading “and the servant that feared his master.” See I. Mendelsohn, “The Canaanite Term for ‘Free Proletarian’,” BASOR 83 (1941): 36-39; idem, “New Light on hupsu,” BASOR 139 (1955): 9-11.

[3:19]  ³ tn The plural “masters” could be taken here as a plural of majesty rather than as referring to numerous masters.

[23:7]  ⁴ tn The adverb “there” has the sense of “then” – there in the future.

[23:7]  ⁵ tn The form of the verb is the Niphal נוֹכָח (nokkakh, “argue, present a case”). E. Dhorme (Job, 346) is troubled by this verbal form and so changes it and other things in the line to say, “he would observe the upright man who argues with him.” The Niphal is used for “engaging discussion,” “arguing a case,” and “settling a dispute.”

[34:22]  ⁷ tn The construction of this colon uses the Niphal infinitive construct from סָתַר (satar, “to be hidden; to hide”). The resumptive adverb makes this a relative clause in its usage: “where the evildoers can hide themselves.”

[35:12]  ¹⁰ tn The adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”) connects this verse to v. 11. “There” can be locative or temporal – and here it is temporal (= “then”).

[39:30]  ¹³ tn The word חֲלָלִים (khalalim) designates someone who is fatally wounded, literally the “pierced one,” meaning anyone or thing that dies a violent death.