Ayub 21:29

21:29 Have you never questioned those who travel the roads?

Do you not recognize their accounts ¹  –

Ayub 42:4

42:4 You said, ² 

‘Pay attention, and I will speak;

I will question you, and you will answer me.’

[21:29]  ¹ tc The LXX reads, “Ask those who go by the way, and do not disown their signs.”

[21:29]  tn The idea is that the merchants who travel widely will talk about what they have seen and heard. These travelers give a different account of the wicked; they tell how he is spared. E. Dhorme (Job, 322) interprets “signs” concretely: “Their custom was to write their names and their thoughts somewhere at the main cross-roads. The main roads of Sinai are dotted with these scribblings made by such passers of a day.”

[42:4]  ² tn This phrase, “you said,” is supplied in the translation to introduce the recollection of God’s words.