Job 30:30

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

my body ²  is hot with fever. ³ 

Job 38:12

38:12 Have you ever in your life ⁴  commanded the morning,

or made the dawn know ⁵  its place,

Job 41:18

41:18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;

its eyes are like the red glow ⁶  of dawn.

[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.

[38:12]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew idiom is “have you from your days?” It means “never in your life” (see 1 Sam 25:28; 1 Kgs 1:6).

[38:12]  ⁵ tn The verb is the Piel of יָדַע (yada’, “to know”) with a double accusative.

[41:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “the eyelids,” but it represents the early beams of the dawn as the cover of night lifts.