Job 27:10-12

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Job 27:10 tn See the note on 22:26 where the same verb is employed.
2. Job 27:11 tn The object suffix is in the plural, which gives some support to the idea Job is speaking to them.
3. Job 27:11 tn Heb “the hand of.”
4. Job 27:11 tn Heb “[what is] with Shaddai.”
5. Job 27:12 tn The interrogative uses the demonstrative pronoun in its emphatic position: “Why in the world…?” (IBHS 312-13 §17.4.3c).
6. Job 27:12 tn The text has the noun “vain thing; breath; vapor,” and then a denominative verb from the same root: “to become vain with a vain thing,” or “to do in vain a vain thing.” This is an example of the internal object, or a cognate accusative (see GKC 367 §117.q). The LXX has “you all know that you are adding vanity to vanity.”