Job 31:12

31:12 For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, ¹ 

and it would uproot ²  all my harvest.

Job 41:20

41:20 Smoke streams from its nostrils

as from a boiling pot over burning ³  rushes.

[31:12]  ¹ tn Heb “to Abaddon.”

[31:12]  ² tn The verb means “to root out,” but this does not fit the parallelism with fire. Wright changed two letters and the vowels in the verb to get the root צָרַף (tsaraf, “to burn”). The NRSV has “burn to the root.”

[41:20]  ³ tn The word “burning” is supplied. The Syriac and Vulgate have “a seething and boiling pot” (reading אֹגֵם [’ogem] for אַגְמֹן [’agmon]). This view is widely accepted.