Job 41:6

41:6 Will partners ¹  bargain ²  for it?

Will they divide it up ³  among the merchants?

Job 27:17

27:17 what he stores up ⁴  a righteous man will wear,

and an innocent man will inherit his silver.

Job 38:25

38:25 Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains,

and a path for the rumble of thunder,

Job 38:24

38:24 In what direction is lightning ⁵  dispersed,

or the east winds scattered over the earth?

Job 1:17

1:17 While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, “The Chaldeans ⁶  formed three bands and made a raid ⁷  on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! ⁸  And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”

[41:6]  ¹ tn The word חָבַּר (khabbar) is a hapax legomenon, but the meaning is “to associate” since it is etymologically related to the verb “to join together.” The idea is that fishermen usually work in companies or groups, and then divide up the catch when they come ashore – which involves bargaining.

[41:6]  ² tn The word כָּרַה (karah) means “to sell.” With the preposition עַל (’al, “upon”) it has the sense “to bargain over something.”

[41:6]  ³ tn The verb means “to cut up; to divide up” in the sense of selling the dead body (see Exod 21:35). This will be between them and the merchants (כְּנַעֲנִים, kÿna’anim).

[27:17]  ⁴ tn The text simply repeats the verb from the last clause. It could be treated as a separate short clause: “He may store it up, but the righteous will wear it. But it also could be understood as the object of the following verb, “[what] he stores up the righteous will wear.” The LXX simply has, “All these things shall the righteous gain.”

[38:24]  ⁷ tn Because the parallel with “light” and “east wind” is not tight, Hoffmann proposed ‘ed instead, “mist.” This has been adopted by many. G. R. Driver suggests “parching heat” (“Problems in the Hebrew text of Job,” VTSup 3 [1955]: 91-92).

[1:17]  ¹⁰ sn The name may have been given to the tribes that roamed between the Euphrates and the lands east of the Jordan. These are possibly the nomadic Kaldu who are part of the ethnic Aramaeans. The LXX simply has “horsemen.”

[1:17]  ¹¹ tn The verb פָּשַׁט (pashat) means “to hurl themselves” upon something (see Judg 9:33, 41). It was a quick, plundering raid to carry off the camels.

[1:17]  ¹² tn Heb “with the edge/mouth of the sword.”