Footnotes

1. Job 42:10 tn The paragraph begins with the disjunctive vav, “Now as for the Lord, he….”
2. Job 42:10 sn The expression here is interesting: “he returned the captivity of Job,” a clause used elsewhere in the Bible of Israel (see e.g., Ps 126). Here it must mean “the fortunes of Job,” i.e., what he had lost. There is a good deal of literature on this; for example, see R. Borger, “Zu šub šb(ī)t,” ZAW 25 (1954): 315-16; and E. Baumann, ZAW 6 (1929): 17ff.
3. Job 42:10 tn This is a temporal clause, using the infinitive construct with the subject genitive suffix. By this it seems that this act of Job was also something of a prerequisite for restoration—to pray for them.
4. Job 42:10 tn The construction uses the verb “and he added” with the word “repeat” (or “twice”).
5. Job 42:11 tn Heb “ate bread.”
6. Job 42:11 tn The Hebrew word קְשִׂיטָה (q^esitah) is generally understood to refer to a unit of money, but the value is unknown.sn The Hebrew word refers to a piece of silver, yet uncoined. It is the kind used in Gen 33:19 and Josh 24:32. It is what would be expected of a story set in the patriarchal age.
7. Job 42:11 sn This gold ring was worn by women in the nose, or men and women in the ear.
8. Job 42:13 tn The word for “seven” is spelled in an unusual way. From this some have thought it means “twice seven,” or fourteen sons. Several commentators take this view, but it is probably not warranted.
9. Job 42:14 sn The Hebrew name Jemimah means “dove.”
10. Job 42:14 sn The Hebrew name Keziah means “cassia.”
11. Job 42:14 sn The Hebrew name Keren-Happuch means “horn of eye-paint.”