Ayub 17:10

Anticipation of Death

17:10 “But turn, all of you, ¹  and come ²  now! ³ 

I will not find a wise man among you.

Ayub 31:37

31:37 I would give him an accounting of my steps;

like a prince I would approach him.

Ayub 36:9

36:9 then he reveals ⁴  to them what they have done, ⁵ 

and their transgressions,

that they were behaving proudly.

[17:10]  ¹ tn The form says “all of them.” Several editors would change it to “all of you,” but the lack of concord is not surprising; the vocative elsewhere uses the third person (see Mic 1:2; see also GKC 441 §135.r).

[17:10]  ² tn The first verb, the jussive, means “to return”; the second verb, the imperative, means “to come.” The two could be taken as a hendiadys, the first verb becoming adverbial: “to come again.”

[17:10]  ³ tn Instead of the exact correspondence between coordinate verbs, other combinations occur – here we have a jussive and an imperative (see GKC 386 §120.e).

[36:9]  ⁴ tn The verb נָגַד (nagad) means “to declare; to tell.” Here it is clear that God is making known the sins that caused the enslavement or captivity, so “reveal” makes a good interpretive translation.

[36:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “their work.”