Ayub 22:14

22:14 Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, ¹ 

as he goes back and forth

in the vault ²  of heaven.’ ³ 

Ayub 24:16

24:16 In the dark the robber ⁴  breaks into houses, ⁵ 

but by day they shut themselves in; ⁶ 

they do not know the light. ⁷ 

Ayub 27:11

27:11 I will teach you ⁸  about the power ⁹  of God;

What is on the Almighty’s mind ¹⁰  I will not conceal.

[22:14]  ¹ tn Heb “and he does not see.” The implied object is “us.”

[22:14]  ² sn The word is “circle; dome”; here it is the dome that covers the earth, beyond which God sits enthroned. A. B. Davidson (Job, 165) suggests “on the arch of heaven” that covers the earth.

[22:14]  ³ sn The idea suggested here is that God is not only far off, but he is unconcerned as he strolls around heaven – this is what Eliphaz says Job means.

[24:16]  ⁴ tn The phrase “the robber” has been supplied in the English translation for clarification.

[24:16]  ⁵ tc This is not the idea of the adulterer, but of the thief. So some commentators reverse the order and put this verse after v. 14.

[24:16]  ⁶ tc The verb חִתְּמוּ (khittÿmu) is the Piel from the verb חָתַם (khatam, “to seal”). The verb is now in the plural, covering all the groups mentioned that work under the cover of darkness. The suggestion that they “seal,” i.e., “mark” the house they will rob, goes against the meaning of the word “seal.”

[24:16]  ⁷ tc Some commentators join this very short colon to the beginning of v. 17: “they do not know the light. For together…” becomes “for together they have not known the light.”

[27:11]  ⁸ tn The object suffix is in the plural, which gives some support to the idea Job is speaking to them.

[27:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “the hand of.”

[27:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “[what is] with Shaddai.”