Job 5:25

5:25 You will also know that your children ¹  will be numerous,

and your descendants ²  like the grass of the earth.

Job 36:28

36:28 which the clouds pour down

and shower on humankind abundantly.

Job 39:11

39:11 Will you rely on it because its strength is great?

Will you commit ³  your labor to it?

[5:25]  ¹ tn Heb “your seed.”

[5:25]  ² tn The word means “your shoots” and is parallel to “your seed” in the first colon. It refers here (as in Isa 34:1 and 42:5) to the produce of the earth. Some commentators suggest that Eliphaz seems to have forgotten or was insensitive to Job’s loss of his children; H. H. Rowley (Job [NCBC], 57) says his conventional theology is untouched by human feeling.

[39:11]  ³ tn Heb “leave.”