Job 38:20

38:20 that you may take them to their borders

and perceive the pathways to their homes? ¹ 

Job 41:4

41:4 Will it make a pact ²  with you,

so you could take it ³  as your slave for life?

[38:20]  ¹ tn The suffixes are singular (“that you may take it to its border…to its home”), referring to either the light or the darkness. Because either is referred to, the translation has employed plurals, since singulars would imply that only the second item, “darkness,” was the referent. Plurals are also employed by NAB and NIV.

[41:4]  ² tn Heb “will he cut a covenant.”

[41:4]  ³ tn The imperfect verb serves to express what the covenant pact would cover, namely, “that you take.”