Job 31:33-34

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Job 31:33 tn Now the protasis continues again.
2. Job 31:33 sn Some commentators suggest taking the meaning here to be “as Adam,” referring to the Paradise story of the sin and denial.
3. Job 31:33 tn The infinitive is epexegetical, explaining the first line.
4. Job 31:33 tn The MT has “in my bosom.” This is the only place in the OT where this word is found. But its meaning is well attested from Aramaic.
5. Job 31:34 tn Here too the verb will be the customary imperfect—it explains what he continually did in past time.
6. Job 31:34 tn Heb “the great multitude.” But some commentators take רַבָּה (rabbah) adverbially: “greatly” (see RSV).