Job 30:30

30:30 My skin has turned dark on me; ¹ 

my body ²  is hot with fever. ³ 

Job 32:3

32:3 With Job’s ⁴  three friends he was also angry, because they could not find ⁵  an answer, and so declared Job guilty. ⁶ 

Job 32:2

32:2 Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry. ⁷  He was angry ⁸  with Job for justifying ⁹  himself rather than God. ¹⁰ 

Job 42:7

VII. The Epilogue (42:7-17)

42:7 After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he ¹¹  said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is stirred up ¹²  against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, ¹³  as my servant Job has.

[30:30]  ¹ tn The MT has “become dark from upon me,” prompting some editions to supply the verb “falls from me” (RSV, NRSV), or “peels” (NIV).

[30:30]  ² tn The word “my bones” may be taken as a metonymy of subject, the bony framework indicating the whole body.

[30:30]  ³ tn The word חֹרֶב (khorev) also means “heat.” The heat in this line is not that of the sun, but obviously a fever.

[32:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Job) has been specified in the translation to indicate whose friends they were.

[32:3]  ⁵ tn The perfect verb should be given the category of potential perfect here.

[32:3]  ⁶ tc This is one of the eighteen “corrections of the scribes” (tiqqune sopherim); it originally read, “and they declared God [in the wrong].” The thought was that in abandoning the debate they had conceded Job’s point.

[32:2]  ⁷ tn The verse begins with וַיִּחַר אַף (vayyikhar ’af, “and the anger became hot”), meaning Elihu became very angry.

[32:2]  ⁸ tn The second comment about Elihu’s anger comes right before the statement of its cause. Now the perfect verb is used: “he was angry.”

[32:2]  ⁹ tn The explanation is the causal clause עַל־צַדְּקוֹ נַפְשׁוֹ (’al-tsaddÿqo nafsho, “because he justified himself”). It is the preposition with the Piel infinitive construct with a suffixed subjective genitive.

[32:2]  ¹⁰ tc The LXX and Latin versions soften the expression slightly by saying “before God.”

[42:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord.” The title has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[42:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “is kindled.”

[42:7]  ¹² tn The form נְכוֹנָה (nÿkhonah) is from כּוּן (kun, “to be firm; to be fixed; to be established”). Here it means “the right thing” or “truth.” The Akkadian word kenu (from כּוּן, kun) connotes justice and truth.