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 28:13

28:13 Mankind does not know its place; ⁴ 

it cannot be found in the land of the living.

Ayub 41:2

41:2 Can you put a cord through its nose,

or pierce its jaw with a hook?

[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).

[28:13]  ⁴ tc The LXX has “its way, apparently reading דַּרְכָה (darkhah) in place of עֶרְכָּהּ (’erkah, “place”). This is adopted by most modern commentators. But R. Gordis (Job, 308) shows that this change is not necessary, for עֶרֶךְ (’erekh) in the Bible means “order; row; disposition,” and here “place.” An alternate meaning would be “worth” (NIV, ESV).