Job 31:32

31:32 But ¹  no stranger had to spend the night outside,

for I opened my doors to the traveler ²  –

Job 5:10

5:10 he gives ³  rain on the earth, ⁴ 

and sends ⁵  water on the fields; ⁶ 

Job 18:17

18:17 His memory perishes from the earth,

he has no name in the land. ⁷ 

[31:32]  ¹ tn This verse forms another parenthesis. Job stops almost at every point now in the conditional clauses to affirm his purity and integrity.

[31:32]  ² tn The word in the MT, אֹרחַ (’orakh, “way”), is a contraction from אֹרֵחַ (’oreakh, “wayfarer”); thus, “traveler.” The same parallelism is found in Jer 14:8. The reading here “on/to the road” is meaningless otherwise.

[5:10]  ³ tn Heb “who gives.” The participle continues the doxology here. But the article is necessary because of the distance between this verse and the reference to God.

[5:10]  ⁴ tn In both halves of the verse the literal rendering would be “upon the face of the earth” and “upon the face of the fields.”

[5:10]  ⁵ tn The second participle is simply coordinated to the first and therefore does not need the definite article repeated (see GKC 404 §126.b).

[5:10]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term חוּצוֹת (khutsot) basically means “outside,” or what is outside. It could refer to streets if what is meant is outside the house; but it refers to fields here (parallel to the more general word) because it is outside the village. See Ps 144:13 for the use of the expression for “countryside.” The LXX gives a much wider interpretation: “what is under heaven.”

[18:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “outside.” Cf. ESV, “in the street,” referring to absence from his community’s memory.