Ayub 31:4

31:4 Does he not see my ways

and count all my steps?

Ayub 31:14

31:14 then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; ¹ 

when he intervenes, ² 

how will I respond to him?

Ayub 34:21-22

34:21 For his eyes are on the ways of an individual,

he observes all a person’s ³  steps.

34:22 There is no darkness, and no deep darkness,

where evildoers can hide themselves. ⁴ 

[31:14]  ¹ tn Heb “arises.” The LXX reads “takes vengeance,” an interpretation that is somewhat correct but unnecessary. The verb “to rise” would mean “to confront in judgment.”

[31:14]  ² tn The verb פָקַד (paqad) means “to visit,” but with God as the subject it means any divine intervention for blessing or cursing, anything God does that changes a person’s life. Here it is “visit to judge.”

[34:21]  ³ tn Heb “his”; the referent (a person) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[34:22]  ⁴ tn The construction of this colon uses the Niphal infinitive construct from סָתַר (satar, “to be hidden; to hide”). The resumptive adverb makes this a relative clause in its usage: “where the evildoers can hide themselves.”