Job 39:29

39:29 From there it spots ¹  its prey, ² 

its eyes gaze intently from a distance.

Job 9:26

9:26 They glide by ³  like reed ⁴  boats,

like an eagle that swoops ⁵  down on its prey. ⁶ 

Job 12:11

12:11 Does not the ear test words,

as ⁷  the tongue ⁸  tastes food? ⁹ 

Job 21:25

21:25 And another man ¹⁰  dies in bitterness of soul, ¹¹ 

never having tasted ¹²  anything good.

Job 31:17

31:17 If I ate my morsel of bread myself,

and did not share any of it with orphans ¹³  –

Job 36:31

36:31 It is by these that he judges ¹⁴  the nations

and supplies food in abundance.

Job 38:41

38:41 Who prepares prey for the raven,

when its young cry out to God

and wander about ¹⁵  for lack of food?

[39:29]  ¹ tn The word means “search,” but can be used for a wide range of matters, including spying.

[39:29]  ² tn Heb “food.”

[9:26]  ³ tn Heb “they flee.”

[9:26]  ⁴ tn The word אֵבֶה (’eveh) means “reed, papyrus,” but it is a different word than was in 8:11. What is in view here is a light boat made from bundles of papyrus that glides swiftly along the Nile (cf. Isa 18:2 where papyrus vessels and swiftness are associated).

[9:26]  ⁵ tn The verb יָטוּשׂ (yatus) is also a hapax legomenon; the Aramaic cognate means “to soar; to hover in flight.” The sentence here requires the idea of swooping down while in flight.

[9:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “food.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn The ו (vav) introduces the comparison here (see 5:7; 11:12); see GKC 499 §161.a.

[12:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “the palate.”

[12:11]  ⁷ tn The final preposition with its suffix is to be understood as a pleonastic dativus ethicus and not translated (see GKC 439 §135.i).

[21:25]  ⁷ tn The expression “this (v. 23)…and this” (v. 25) means “one…the other.”

[21:25]  ⁸ tn The text literally has “and this [man] dies in soul of bitterness.” Some simply reverse it and translate “in the bitterness of soul.” The genitive “bitterness” may be an attribute adjective, “with a bitter soul.”

[21:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “eaten what is good.” It means he died without having enjoyed the good life.

[31:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “and an orphan did not eat from it.”

[36:31]  ¹¹ tn The verb is יָדִין (yadin, “he judges”). Houbigant proposedיָזוּן (yazun, “he nourishes”). This has found wide acceptance among commentators (cf. NAB). G. R. Driver retained the MT but gave a meaning “enriches” to the verb (“Problems in the Hebrew text of Job,” VTSup 3 [1955]: 88ff.).

[38:41]  ¹³ tn The verse is difficult, making some suspect that a line has dropped out. The little birds in the nest hardly go wandering about looking for food. Dhorme suggest “and stagger for lack of food.”