Ayub 10:18

An Appeal for Relief

10:18 “Why then did you bring me out from the womb?

I should have died ¹ 

and no eye would have seen me!

Ayub 12:24

12:24 He deprives the leaders of the earth ² 

of their understanding; ³ 

he makes them wander

in a trackless desert waste. ⁴ 

Ayub 15:7

15:7 “Were you the first man ever born?

Were you brought forth before the hills?

Ayub 20:7

20:7 he will perish forever, like his own excrement; ⁵ 

those who used to see him will say, ‘Where is he?’

Ayub 33:24

33:24 and if ⁶  God ⁷  is gracious to him and says,

‘Spare ⁸  him from going down

to the place of corruption,

I have found a ransom for him,’ ⁹ 

Ayub 37:12

37:12 The clouds ¹⁰  go round in circles,

wheeling about according to his plans,

to carry out ¹¹  all that he commands them

over the face of the whole inhabited world.

[10:18]  ¹ tn The two imperfect verbs in this section are used to stress regrets for something which did not happen (see GKC 317 §107.n).

[12:24]  ² tn Heb “the heads of the people of the earth.”

[12:24]  ³ tn Heb “heart.”

[12:24]  ⁴ tn The text has בְּתֹהוּ לֹא־דָרֶךְ (bÿtohu lo’ darekh): “in waste – no way,” or “in a wasteland [where there is] no way,” thus, “trackless” (see the discussion of negative attributes using לֹא [lo’] in GKC 482 §152.u).

[20:7]  ⁵ tn There have been attempts to change the word here to “like a whirlwind,” or something similar. But many argue that there is no reason to remove a coarse expression from Zophar.

[33:24]  ⁶ tn This verse seems to continue the protasis begun in the last verse, with the apodosis coming in the next verse.

[33:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:24]  ⁸ tc The verb is either taken as an anomalous form of פָּדַע (pada’, “to rescue; to redeem,” or “to exempt him”), or it is emended to some similar word, like פָּרַע (para’, “to let loose,” so Wright).

[33:24]  ⁹ sn This verse and v. 28 should be compared with Ps 49:7-9, 15 (8-10, 16 HT) where the same basic vocabulary and concepts are employed.

[37:12]  ¹⁰ tn The words “the clouds” are supplied from v. 11; the sentence itself actually starts: “and it goes round,” referring to the cloud.

[37:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “that it may do.”