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Do you fix your eye[a] on such a one?[b]
And do you bring me[c] before you for judgment?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:3 tn Heb “open the eye on,” an idiom meaning to prepare to judge someone.
  2. Job 14:3 tn The verse opens with אַף־עַל־זֶה (ʾaf ʿal zeh), meaning “even on such a one!” It is an exclamation of surprise.
  3. Job 14:3 tn The text clearly has “me” as the accusative, but many wish to emend it to say “him” (אֹתוֹ, ʾoto). But D. J. A. Clines rightly rejects this in view of the way Job is written, often moving back and forth between his own tragedy and others’ tragedies (Job [WBC], 283).