34:33 Is it your opinion 1 that God 2 should recompense it,
because you reject this? 3
But you must choose, and not I,
so tell us what you know.
11:35 Or who has first given to God, 4
that God 5 needs to repay him? 6
1 tn Heb “is it from with you,” an idiomatic expression meaning “to suit you” or “according to your judgment.”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn There is no object on the verb, and the meaning is perhaps lost. The best guess is that Elihu is saying Job has rejected his teaching.
4 tn Grk “him”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 sn A quotation from Job 41:11.