Ayub 2:5

2:5 But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, ¹  and he will no doubt ²  curse you to your face!”

Ayub 32:22

32:22 for I do not know how to give honorary titles, ³ 

if I did, ⁴  my Creator would quickly do away with me. ⁵ 

[2:5]  ¹ sn The “bones and flesh” are idiomatic for the whole person, his physical and his psychical/spiritual being (see further H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 26-28).

[2:5]  ² sn This is the same oath formula found in 1:11; see the note there.

[32:22]  ³ tn The construction uses a perfect verb followed by the imperfect. This is a form of subordination equivalent to a complementary infinitive (see GKC 385-86 §120.c).

[32:22]  ⁴ tn The words “if I did” are supplied in the translation to make sense out of the two clauses.

[32:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “quickly carry me away.”