Footnotes

1. Job 32:6 tn Heb “answered and said.”
2. Job 32:6 tn The text has “small in days.”
3. 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).
4. Job 32:6 tn The Piel infinitive with the preposition (מֵחַוֹּת, mekhavvot) means “from explaining.” The phrase is the complement: “explain” what Elihu feared.
5. Job 32:7 tn Heb “days.”
6. Job 32:7 tn The imperfect here is to be classified as an obligatory imperfect.
7. Job 32:7 tn Heb “abundance of years.”
8. Job 32:8 tn This is the word נְשָׁמָה (n^eshamah, “breath”); according to Gen 2:7 it was breathed into Adam to make him a living person (“soul”). With that divine impartation came this spiritual understanding. Some commentators identify the רוּחַ (ruakh) in the first line as the Spirit of God; this “breath” would then be the human spirit. Whether Elihu knew that much, however, is hard to prove.
9. Job 32:9 tn The MT has “the great” or “the many,” meaning great in years according to the parallelism.