Ayub 9:25

Renewed Complaint

9:25 “My days ¹  are swifter than a runner, ² 

they speed by without seeing happiness.

Ayub 41:28

41:28 Arrows ³  do not make it flee;

slingstones become like chaff to it.

[9:25]  ¹ tn The text has “and my days” following the thoughts in the previous section.

[9:25]  ² sn Job returns to the thought of the brevity of his life (7:6). But now the figure is the swift runner instead of the weaver’s shuttle.

[41:28]  ³ tn Heb “the son of the bow.”