Ayub 6:13

6:13 Is ¹  not my power to help myself nothing,

and has not every resource ²  been driven from me?

Ayub 15:35

15:35 They conceive ³  trouble and bring forth evil;

their belly ⁴  prepares deception.”

Ayub 31:5

31:5 If ⁵  I have walked in falsehood,

and if ⁶  my foot has hastened ⁷  to deceit –

[6:13]  ¹ tn For the use of the particle אִם (’im) in this kind of interrogative clause, see GKC 475 §150.g, note.

[6:13]  ² tn The word means something like “recovery,” or the powers of recovery; it was used in Job 5:12. In 11:6 it applies to a condition of the mind, such as mental resource. Job is thinking not so much of relief or rescue from his troubles, but of strength to bear them.

[15:35]  ³ tn Infinitives absolute are used in this verse in the place of finite verbs. They lend a greater vividness to the description, stressing the basic meaning of the words.

[15:35]  ⁴ tn At the start of the speech Eliphaz said Job’s belly was filled with the wind; now it is there that he prepares deception. This inclusio frames the speech.

[31:5]  ⁵ tn The normal approach is to take this as the protasis, and then have it resumed in v. 7 after a parenthesis in v. 6. But some take v. 6 as the apodosis and a new protasis in v. 7.

[31:5]  ⁶ tn The “if” is understood by the use of the consecutive verb.

[31:5]  ⁷ sn The verbs “walk” and “hasten” (referring in the verse to the foot) are used metaphorically for the manner of life Job lived.