Footnotes

1. Job 35:4 tn The emphatic pronoun calls attention to Elihu who will answer these questions.
2. Job 35:4 tn The Hebrew text adds, “with words,” but since this is obvious, for stylistic reasons it has not been included in the translation.
3. Job 35:5 tn The preposition is taken here as a comparative min (מִן). The line could also read “that are high above you.” This idea has appeared in the speech of Eliphaz (22:12), Zophar (11:7-8), and even Job (9:8-11).
4. Job 35:6 tn Heb “him” (also in v. 7); the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5. Job 35:6 tn See Job 7:20.
6. Job 35:8 tn The phrase “affects only” is supplied in the translation of this nominal sentence.sn According to Strahan, “Elihu exalts God’s greatness at the cost of His grace, His transcendence at the expense of His immanence. He sets up a material instead of a spiritual stand of profit and loss. He does not realize that God does gain what He desires most by the goodness of men, and loses what He most loves by their evil.”
7. Job 35:8 tn Heb “and to [or for] a son of man, your righteousness.”