Ayub 11:16

11:16 For you ¹  will forget your trouble; ² 

you will remember it

like water that ³  has flowed away.

Ayub 20:22

20:22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, ⁴ 

distress ⁵  overtakes him.

the full force of misery will come upon him. ⁶ 

Ayub 30:25

30:25 Have I not wept for the unfortunate? ⁷ 

Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Ayub 36:15

36:15 He delivers the afflicted by ⁸  their ⁹  afflictions,

he reveals himself to them ¹⁰  by their suffering.

[11:16]  ¹ tn For a second time (see v. 13) Zophar employs the emphatic personal pronoun. Could he be providing a gentle reminder that Job might have forgotten the sin that has brought this trouble? After all, there will come a time when Job will not remember this time of trial.

[11:16]  ² sn It is interesting to note in the book that the resolution of Job’s trouble did not come in the way that Zophar prescribed it.

[11:16]  ³ tn The perfect verb forms an abbreviated relative clause (without the pronoun) modifying “water.”

[20:22]  ⁴ tn The word שָׂפַק (safaq) occurs only here; it means “sufficiency; wealth; abundance (see D. W. Thomas, “The Text of Jesaia 2:6 and the Word sapaq,” ZAW 75 [1963]: 88-90).

[20:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “there is straightness for him.” The root צָרַר (tsarar) means “to be narrowed in straits, to be in a bind.” The word here would have the idea of pressure, stress, trouble. One could say he is in a bind.

[20:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “every hand of trouble comes to him.” The pointing of עָמֵל (’amel) indicates it would refer to one who brings trouble; LXX and Latin read an abstract noun עָמָל (’amal, “trouble”) here.

[30:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “for the hard of day.”

[36:15]  ⁸ tn The preposition בּ (bet) in these two lines is not location but instrument, not “in” but “by means of.” The affliction and the oppression serve as a warning for sin, and therefore a means of salvation.

[36:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “his.”

[36:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he uncovers their ear.”