Job 22:28-30

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Job 22:28 tn The word is גָּזַר (gazar, “to cut”), in the sense of deciding a matter.
2. Job 22:29 tn There is no expressed subject here, and so the verb is taken as a passive voice again.
3. Job 22:29 tn The word גֵּוָה (gevah) means “loftiness; pride.” Here it simply says “up,” or “pride.” The rest is paraphrased. Of the many suggestions, the following provide a sampling: “It is because of pride” (ESV), “he abases pride” (H. H. Rowley); “[he abases] the lofty and the proud” (Beer); “[he abases] the word of pride” [Duhm]; “[he abases] the haughtiness of pride” [Fohrer and others]; “[he abases] the one who speaks proudly” [Weiser]; “[he abases] the one who boasts in pride” [Kissane]; and “God [abases] pride” [Budde, Gray].
4. Job 22:29 tn Or “humble”; Heb “the lowly of eyes.”
5. Job 22:30 tc The Hebrew has אִי־נָקִי (ʾi naqi), which could be taken as “island of the innocent” (so Ibn-Ezra), or “him that is not innocent” (so Rashi). But some have changed אִי (ʾi) to אִישׁ (ʾish, “the innocent man”). Others differ: A. Guillaume links אִי (ʾi) to Arabic ʿayya “whosoever,” and so leaves the text alone. M. Dahood secures the same idea from Ugaritic, but reads it אֵי (ʾe).
6. Job 22:30 tc The MT has “he will escape [or be delivered].” Theodotion has the second person, “you will be delivered.”