Job 22:16-18

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Job 22:16 tn The word “men” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied to clarify the relative pronoun “who.”
2. Job 22:16 tn The verb קָמַט (qamat) basically means “to seize; to tie together to make a bundle.” So the Pual will mean “to be bundled away; to be carried off.”
3. Job 22:16 tn The clause has “and [it was] not the time.” It may be used adverbially here.
4. Job 22:16 tn The word is נָהַר (nahar, “river” or “current”); it is taken here in its broadest sense of the waters on the earth that formed the current of the flood (Gen 7:6, 10).
5. Job 22:16 tn The verb יָצַק (yatsaq) means “to pour out; to shed; to spill; to flow.” The Hophal means “to be poured out” (as in Lev 21:10 and Ps 45:3).
6. Job 22:16 tn This word is then to be taken as an adverbial accusative of place. Another way to look at this verse is what A. B. Davidson (Job, 165) proposes “whose foundation was poured away and became a flood.” This would mean that that on which they stood sank away.
7. Job 22:17 tn The form in the text is “to them.” The LXX and the Syriac versions have “to us.”
8. Job 22:18 tn The pronoun is added for this emphasis; it has “but he” before the verb.
9. Job 22:18 tn See Job 10:3.
10. Job 22:18 tc The LXX has “from him,” and this is followed by several commentators. But the MT is to be retained, for Eliphaz is recalling the words of Job. Verses 17 and 18 are deleted by a number of commentators as a gloss because they have many similarities to 21:14-16. But Eliphaz is recalling what Job said, in order to say that the prosperity to which Job alluded was only the prelude to a disaster he denied (H. H. Rowley, Job [NCBC], 156).