Discovery BoxJob 7:19
Context7:19 Will you never 1 look away from me, 2
will you not let me alone 3
long enough to swallow my spittle?
Psalms 39:13
Context39:13 Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy
before I pass away. 4
Psalms 88:7
Context88:7 Your anger bears down on me,
and you overwhelm me with all your waves. (Selah)
Psalms 88:15-18
Context88:15 I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. 5
I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain. 6
88:16 Your anger overwhelms me; 7
your terrors destroy me.
88:17 They surround me like water all day long;
they join forces and encircle me. 8
88:18 You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance; 9
those who know me leave me alone in the darkness. 10
Lamentations 3:3
Context3:3 He repeatedly 11 attacks me,
he turns his hand 12 against me all day long. 13
Lamentations 3:18
Context3:18 So I said, “My endurance has expired;
I have lost all hope of deliverance 14 from the Lord.”
[7:19] 1 tn Heb “according to what [= how long] will you not look away from me.”
[7:19] 2 tn The verb שָׁעָה (sha’ah, “to look”) with the preposition מִן (min) means “to look away from; to avert one’s gaze.” Job wonders if God would not look away from him even briefly, for the constant vigilance is killing him.
[7:19] 3 tn The Hiphil of רָפָה (rafah) means “to leave someone alone.”
[39:13] 4 tn Heb “Gaze away from me and I will smile before I go and am not.” The precise identification of the initial verb form (הָשַׁע, hasha’) is uncertain. It could be from the root שָׁעָע (sha’a’, “smear”), but “your eyes” would be the expected object in this case (see Isa 6:10). The verb may be an otherwise unattested Hiphil form of שָׁעָה (sha’ah, “to gaze”) meaning “cause your gaze to be.” Some prefer to emend the form to the Qal שְׁעֵה (shÿ’eh, “gaze”; see Job 14:6). If one does read a form of the verb “to gaze,” the angry divine “gaze” of discipline would seem to be in view (see vv. 10-11). For a similar expression of this sentiment see Job 10:20-21.
[88:15] 5 tn Heb “and am dying from youth.”
[88:15] 6 tn Heb “I carry your horrors [?].” The meaning of the Hebrew form אָפוּנָה (’afunah), which occurs only here in the OT, is unclear. It may be an adverb meaning “very much” (BDB 67 s.v.), though some prefer to emend the text to אָפוּגָה (’afugah, “I am numb”) from the verb פוּג (pug; see Pss 38:8; 77:2).
[88:16] 7 tn Heb “passes over me.”
[88:17] 8 tn Heb “they encircle me together.”
[88:18] 9 tn Heb “you cause to be far from me friend and neighbor.”
[88:18] 10 tn Heb “those known by me, darkness.”
[3:3] 11 tn The two verbs יָשֻׁב יַהֲפֹךְ (yashuv yahafokh, “he returns, he turns”) form a verbal hendiadys: the second verb retains its full verbal sense, while the first functions adverbially: “he repeatedly turns…” The verb שׁוּב (shuv, lit., “to return”) functions adverbially to denote repetition: “to do repeatedly, do again and again” (GKC 386-87 §120.d, g) (Gen 26:18; 30:31; Num 11:4; Judg 19:7; 1 Sam 3:5, 6; 1 Kgs 13:33; 19:6; 21:3; 2 Chr 33:3; Job 10:16; 17:10; Ps 7:13; Jer 18:4; 36:28; Lam 3:3; Dan 9:25; Zech 5:1; 6:1; Mal 1:4).
[3:3] 12 tn The idiom “to turn the hand against” someone is a figurative expression denoting hostility. The term “hand” (יָד, yad) is often used in idioms denoting hostility (Exod 9:3, 15; Deut 2:15; Judg 2:15; 1 Sam 5:3, 6, 9; 6:9; 2 Sam 24:16; 2 Chr 30:12; Ezra 7:9; Job 19:21; Ps 109:27; Jer 15:17; 16:21; Ezek 3:14). The reference to God’s “hand” is anthropomorphic.
[3:3] 13 tn Heb “all of the day.” The idiom כָּל־הַיּוֹם (kol-hayom, “all day”) means “continually” or “all day long” (Gen 6:5; Deut 28:32; 33:12; Pss 25:5; 32:3; 35:28; 37:26; 38:7, 13; 42:4, 11; 44:9, 16, 23; 52:3; 56:2, 3, 6; 71:8, 15, 24; 72:15; 73:14; 74:22; 86:3; 88:18; 89:17; 102:9; 119:97; Prov 21:26; 23:17; Isa 28:24; 51:13; 52:5; 65:2, 5; Jer 20:7, 8; Lam 1:13, 14, 62; Hos 12:2).
[3:18] 14 tn Heb “and my hope from the
