Ayub 22:13-14

22:13 But you have said, ‘What does God know?

Does he judge through such deep darkness? ¹ 

22:14 Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, ² 

as he goes back and forth

in the vault ³  of heaven.’ ⁴ 

Ayub 22:17

22:17 They were saying to God, ‘Turn away from us,’

and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’ ⁵ 

[22:13]  ¹ sn Eliphaz is giving to Job the thoughts and words of the pagans, for they say, “How does God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?” (see Ps 73:11; 94:11).

[22:14]  ² tn Heb “and he does not see.” The implied object is “us.”

[22:14]  ³ sn The word is “circle; dome”; here it is the dome that covers the earth, beyond which God sits enthroned. A. B. Davidson (Job, 165) suggests “on the arch of heaven” that covers the earth.

[22:14]  ⁴ sn The idea suggested here is that God is not only far off, but he is unconcerned as he strolls around heaven – this is what Eliphaz says Job means.

[22:17]  ⁵ tn The form in the text is “to them.” The LXX and the Syriac versions have “to us.”