Ayub 20:21

20:21 “Nothing is left for him to devour; ¹ 

that is why his prosperity does not last. ² 

Ayub 29:20

29:20 My glory ³  will always be fresh ⁴  in me,

and my bow ever new in my hand.’

[20:21]  ¹ tn Heb “for his eating,” which is frequently rendered “for his gluttony.” It refers, of course, to all the desires he has to take things from other people.

[20:21]  ² sn The point throughout is that insatiable greed and ruthless plundering to satisfy it will be recompensed with utter and complete loss.

[29:20]  ³ tn The word is “my glory,” meaning his high respect and his honor. Hoffmann proposed to read כִּידוֹן (kidon) instead, meaning “javelin” (as in 1 Sam 17:6), to match the parallelism (RQ 3 [1961/62]: 388). But the parallelism does not need to be so tight.

[29:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “new.”