Job 30:21

30:21 You have become cruel to me; ¹ 

with the strength of your hand you attack me. ² 

Job 21:23

Death Levels Everything

21:23 “One man dies in his full vigor, ³ 

completely secure and prosperous,

[30:21]  ¹ tn The idiom uses the Niphal verb “you are turned” with “to cruelty.” See Job 41:20b, as well as Isa 63:10.

[30:21]  ² tc The LXX reads this verb as “you scourged/whipped me.” But there is no reason to adopt this change.

[21:23]  ³ tn The line has “in the bone of his perfection.” The word עֶצֶם (’etsem), which means “bone,” is used pronominally to express “the same, very”; here it is “in the very fullness of his strength” (see GKC 449 §139.g). The abstract תֹּם (tom) is used here in the sense of physical perfection and strengths.