Job 30:30

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

my body ²  is hot with fever. ³ 

Job 39:22

39:22 It laughs at fear and is not dismayed;

it does not shy away from the sword.

Job 41:26

41:26 Whoever strikes it with a sword ⁴ 

will have no effect, ⁵ 

nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

[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.

[41:26]  ⁴ tn This is the clearest reading, following A. B. Davidson, Job, 285. The versions took different readings of the construction.

[41:26]  ⁵ tn The verb קוּם (qum, “stand”) with בְּלִי (bÿli, “not”) has the sense of “does not hold firm,” or “gives way.”