Discovery Box| (0.148863125) | (Job 1:5) |
7 tn The clause stands as an accusative to the verb, here as the direct object introduced with “perhaps” (IBHS 645-46 §38.8d). |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 1:10) |
1 tn The use of the independent personal pronoun here emphasizes the subject of the verb: “Have you not put up a hedge.” |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 2:3) |
2 tn This is the same word used to describe Job as “blameless, pure.” Here it carries the idea of “integrity”; Job remained blameless, perfect. |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 2:6) |
1 tn The particle הִנּוֹ (hinno) is literally, “here he is!” God presents Job to Satan, with the restriction on preserving Job’s life. |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 3:6) |
1 tn The verb is simply לָקַח (laqakh, “to take”). Here it conveys a strong sense of seizing something and not letting it go. |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 3:10) |
1 tn The subject is still “that night.” Here, at the end of this first section, Job finally expresses the crime of that night – it did not hinder his birth. |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 3:16) |
5 tn The word עֹלְלִים (’olÿlim) normally refers to “nurslings.” Here it must refer to infants in general since it refers to a stillborn child. |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 4:2) |
2 tn The Piel perfect is difficult here. It would normally be translated “has one tried (words with you)?” Most commentaries posit a conditional clause, however. |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 4:4) |
2 tn The form is the singular active participle, interpreted here collectively. The verb is used of knees that give way (Isa 35:3; Ps 109:24). |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 4:7) |
4 tn The adjective is used here substantivally. Without the article the word stresses the meaning of “uprightness.” Job will use “innocent” and “upright” together in Kir+Heres&tab=notes" ver="">17:8. |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 4:7) |
5 tn The Niphal means “to be hidden” (see the Piel in Kir+Heres&tab=notes" ver="">6:10; 15:18; and 27:11); the connotation here is “destroyed” or “annihilated.” |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 4:8) |
1 tn The perfect verb here represents the indefinite past. It has no specific sighting in mind, but refers to each time he has seen the wicked do this. |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 5:7) |
1 tn Heb “man [is].” Because “man” is used in a generic sense for humanity here, the generic “people” has been used in the translation. |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 5:10) |
1 tn Heb “who gives.” The participle continues the doxology here. But the article is necessary because of the distance between this verse and the reference to God. |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 5:18) |
2 tn The addition of the independent pronoun here makes the subject emphatic, as if to say, “For it is he who makes….” |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 5:22) |
2 tn The negated jussive is used here to express the conviction that something cannot or should not happen (GKC 322 §109.e). |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 6:2) |
4 tn The third person plural verb is used here; it expresses an indefinite subject and is treated as a passive (see GKC 460 §144.g). |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 6:10) |
5 tn The כִּי (ki, “for”) functions here to explain “my comfort” in the first colon; the second colon simply strengthens the first. |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 6:19) |
4 tn In Ps 68:24 this word has the meaning of “processions”; here that procession is of traveling merchants forming convoys or caravans. |
| (0.148863125) | (Job 6:30) |
1 tn The word עַוְלָה (’avlah) is repeated from the last verse. Here the focus is clearly on wickedness or injustice spoken. |
