Ayub 14:3

14:3 Do you fix your eye ¹  on such a one? ² 

And do you bring me ³  before you for judgment?

Ayub 35:9

35:9 “People ⁴  cry out

because of the excess of oppression; ⁵ 

they cry out for help

because of the power ⁶  of the mighty. ⁷ 

Ayub 38:37

38:37 Who by wisdom can count the clouds,

and who can tip over ⁸  the water jars of heaven,

Ayub 41:15

41:15 Its back ⁹  has rows of shields,

shut up closely ¹⁰  together as with a seal;

[14:3]  ¹ tn Heb “open the eye on,” an idiom meaning to prepare to judge someone.

[14:3]  ² tn The verse opens with אַף־עַל־זֶה (’af-’al-zeh), meaning “even on such a one!” It is an exclamation of surprise.

[14:3]  ³ tn The text clearly has “me” as the accusative; but many wish to emend it to say “him” (אֹתוֹ, ’oto). But D. J. A. Clines rightly rejects this in view of the way Job is written, often moving back and forth from his own tragedy and others’ tragedies (Job [WBC], 283).

[35:9]  ⁴ tn The word “people” is supplied, because the sentence only has the masculine plural verb.

[35:9]  ⁵ tn The final noun is an abstract plural, “oppression.” There is no reason to change it to “oppressors” to fit the early versions. The expression is literally “multitude of oppression.”

[35:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “the arm,” a metaphor for strength or power.

[35:9]  ⁷ tn Or “of the many” (see HALOT 1172 s.v. I רַב 6.a).

[38:37]  ⁸ tn The word actually means “to cause to lie down.”

[41:15]  ⁹ tc The MT has גַּאֲוָה (ga’avah, “his pride”), but the LXX, Aquila, and the Vulgate all read גַּוּוֹ (gavvo, “his back”). Almost all the modern English versions follow the variant reading, speaking about “his [or its] back.”

[41:15]  ¹⁰ tn Instead of צָר (tsar, “closely”) the LXX has צֹר (tsor, “stone”) to say that the seal was rock hard.