Job 7:10

7:10 He returns no more to his house,

nor does his place of residence ¹  know him ²  any more.

Job 8:18

8:18 If he is uprooted ³  from his place,

then that place ⁴  will disown him, saying, ⁵ 

‘I have never seen you!’

Job 20:9

20:9 People ⁶  who had seen him will not see him again,

and the place where he was

will recognize him no longer.

Job 27:21-23

27:21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone;

it sweeps him out of his place.

27:22 It hurls itself against him without pity ⁷ 

as he flees headlong from its power.

27:23 It claps ⁸  its hands at him in derision

and hisses him away from his place. ⁹ 

Psalms 37:10

37:10 Evil men will soon disappear; ¹⁰ 

you will stare at the spot where they once were, but they will be gone. ¹¹ 

Acts 1:25

1:25 to assume the task ¹²  of this service ¹³  and apostleship from which Judas turned aside ¹⁴  to go to his own place.” ¹⁵ 

Jude 1:6

1:6 You also know that ¹⁶  the angels who did not keep within their proper domain ¹⁷  but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept ¹⁸  in eternal chains ¹⁹  in utter ²⁰  darkness, locked up ²¹  for the judgment of the great Day.

[7:10]  ¹ tn M. Dahood suggests the meaning is the same as “his abode” (“Hebrew-Ugaritic Lexicography V,” Bib 48 [1967]: 421-38).

[7:10]  ² tn The verb means “to recognize” by seeing. “His place,” the place where he was living, is the subject of the verb. This personification is intended simply to say that the place where he lived will not have him any more. The line is very similar to Ps 103:16b – when the wind blows the flower away, its place knows it no more.

[8:18]  ³ tc Ball reads אֵל (’el, “God”) instead of אִם (’im, “if”): “God destroys it” – but there is no reason for this. The idea would be implied in the context. A. B. Davidson rightly points out that who destroys it is not important, but the fact that it is destroyed.

[8:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “it”; the referent (“his place” in the preceding line) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:18]  ⁵ tn Here “saying” is supplied in the translation.

[20:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “the eye that had seen him.” Here a part of the person (the eye, the instrument of vision) is put by metonymy for the entire person.

[27:22]  ⁷ tn The verb is once again functioning in an adverbial sense. The text has “it hurls itself against him and shows no mercy.”

[27:23]  ⁸ tn If the same subject is to be carried through here, it is the wind. That would make this a bold personification, perhaps suggesting the force of the wind. Others argue that it is unlikely that the wind claps its hands. They suggest taking the verb with an indefinite subject: “he claps” means “one claps. The idea is that of people rejoicing when the wicked are gone. But the parallelism is against this unless the second line is changed as well. R. Gordis (Job, 296) has “men will clap their hands…men will whistle upon him.”

[27:23]  ⁹ tn Or “hisses at him from its place” (ESV).

[37:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and yet, a little, there will be no wicked [one].”

[37:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and you will carefully look upon his place, but he will not be [there].” The singular is used here in a representative sense; the typical evildoer is in view.

[1:25]  ¹² tn Grk “to take the place.”

[1:25]  ¹³ tn Or “of this ministry.”

[1:25]  ¹⁴ tn Or “the task of this service and apostleship which Judas ceased to perform.”

[1:25]  ¹⁵ sn To go to his own place. This may well be a euphemism for Judas’ judged fate. He separated himself from them, and thus separated he would remain.

[1:6]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “and.” Verse 6 is a continuation of the same sentence begun in v. 5. Due to the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:6]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “who did not keep their own domain.”

[1:6]  ¹⁸ sn There is an interesting play on words used in this verse. Because the angels did not keep their proper place, Jesus has kept them chained up in another place. The same verb keep is used in v. 1 to describe believers’ status before God and Christ.

[1:6]  ¹⁹ sn In 2 Pet 2:4 a less common word for chains is used.

[1:6]  ²⁰ tn The word ζόφος (zofos, “utter, deepest darkness”) is used only five times in the NT: two in 2 Peter, two in Jude, and one in Hebrews. Jude 6 parallels 2 Pet 2:4; Jude 13 parallels 2 Pet 2:17.

[1:6]  ²¹ tn The words “locked up” are not in Greek, but is expressed in English as a resumptive point after the double prepositional phrase (“in eternal chains in utter darkness”).