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 26:4

26:4 To whom ³  did you utter these words?

And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth? ⁴ 

Ayub 32:10

32:10 Therefore I say, ‘Listen ⁵  to me.

I, even I, will explain what I know.’

Ayub 32:17-18

32:17 I too will answer my part,

I too will explain what I know.

32:18 For I am full of words,

and the spirit within me ⁶  constrains me. ⁷ 

[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.

[26:4]  ³ tn The verse begins with the preposition and the interrogative: אֶת־מִי (’et-mi, “with who[se help]?”). Others take it as the accusative particle introducing the indirect object: “for whom did you utter…” (see GKC 371 §117.gg). Both are possible.

[26:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “has gone out from you.”

[32:10]  ⁵ tc In most Hebrew mss this imperative is singular, and so addressed to Job. But two Hebrew mss and the versions have the plural. Elihu was probably addressing all of them.

[32:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “the spirit of my belly.”

[32:18]  ⁷ tn The verb צוּק (tsuq) means “to constrain; to urge; to press.” It is used in Judg 14:17; 16:16 with the sense of wearing someone down with repeated entreaties. Elihu cannot withhold himself any longer.