Psalms 136:4

136:4 to the one who performs magnificent, amazing deeds all by himself,

for his loyal love endures,

Exodus 11:8

11:8 All these your servants will come down to me and bow down ¹  to me, saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow ²  you,’ and after that I will go out.” Then Moses ³  went out from Pharaoh in great anger.

Exodus 15:11

15:11 Who is like you, ⁴  O Lord, among the gods? ⁵ 

Who is like you? – majestic in holiness, fearful in praises, ⁶  working wonders?

Job 5:9

5:9 He does ⁷  great and unsearchable ⁸  things,

marvelous things without ⁹  number; ¹⁰ 

Job 9:10

9:10 he does great and unsearchable things, ¹¹ 

and wonderful things without number.

Job 26:14

26:14 Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! ¹² 

How faint is the whisper ¹³  we hear of him!

But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

[11:8]  ¹ sn Moses’ anger is expressed forcefully. “He had appeared before Pharaoh a dozen times either as God’s emissary or when summoned by Pharaoh, but he would not come again; now they would have to search him out if they needed help” (B. Jacob, Exodus, 289-90).

[11:8]  ² tn Heb “that are at your feet.”

[11:8]  ³ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:11]  ⁴ tn The question is of course rhetorical; it is a way of affirming that no one is comparable to God. See C. J. Labuschagne, The Incomparability of Yahweh in the Old Testament, 22, 66-67, and 94-97.

[15:11]  ⁵ sn Verses 11-17 will now focus on Yahweh as the incomparable one who was able to save Israel from their foes and afterward lead them to the promised land.

[15:11]  ⁶ tn S. R. Driver suggests “praiseworthy acts” as the translation (Exodus, 137).

[5:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “who does.” It is common for such doxologies to begin with participles; they follow the pattern of the psalms in this style. Because of the length of the sentence in Hebrew and the conventions of English style, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[5:9]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew has וְאֵין חֵקֶר (vÿ’en kheqer), literally, “and no investigation.” The use of the conjunction on the expression follows a form of the circumstantial clause construction, and so the entire expression describes the great works as “unsearchable.”

[5:9]  ⁹ tn The preposition in עַד־אֵין (’ad ’en, “until there was no”) is stereotypical; it conveys the sense of having no number (see Job 9:10; Ps 40:13).

[5:9]  ¹⁰ sn H. H. Rowley (Job [NCBC], 54) notes that the verse fits Eliphaz’s approach very well, for he has good understanding of the truth, but has difficulty in making the correct conclusions from it.

[9:10]  ¹¹ tn Only slight differences exist between this verse and 5:9 which employs the simple ו (vav) conjunction before אֵין (’eyn) in the first colon and omits the ו (vav) conjunction before נִפְלָאוֹת (nifla’ot, “wonderful things”) in the second colon.

[26:14]  ¹² tn Heb “the ends of his ways,” meaning “the fringes.”

[26:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “how little is the word.” Here “little” means a “fraction” or an “echo.”