Job 32:4-6

New English Translation

Notas al pie

1. Job 32:4 tc This reading requires repointing the word בִּדְבָרִים (bid^evarim, “with words”) to בְּדַבְּרָם (b^edabb^eram, “while they spoke [with Job]”). If the MT is retained, it would mean “he waited for Job with words,” which while understandable is awkward.
2. Job 32:4 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the other friends) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3. Job 32:5 tn The first clause beginning with a vav (ו) consecutive and the preterite can be subordinated to the next similar verb as a temporal clause.
4. Job 32:5 tn Heb “that there was no reply in the mouth of the three men.”
5. Job 32:6 tn Heb “answered and said.”
6. Job 32:6 tn The text has “small in days.”
7. Job 32:6 tn The verb זָחַלְתִּי (zakhalti) is found only here in the OT, but it is found in a ninth century Aramaic inscription as well as in Biblical Aramaic. It has the meaning “to be timid” (see H. H. Rowley, Job [NCBC], 208).
8. Job 32:6 tn The Piel infinitive with the preposition (מֵחַוֹּת, mekhavvot) means “from explaining.” The phrase is the complement: “explain” what Elihu feared.