Ayub 30:21

30:21 You have become cruel to me; ¹ 

with the strength of your hand you attack me. ² 

Ayub 36:19

36:19 Would your wealth ³  sustain you,

so that you would not be in distress, ⁴ 

even all your mighty efforts? ⁵ 

[30:21]  ¹ tn The idiom uses the Niphal verb “you are turned” with “to cruelty.” See Job 41:20b, as well as Isa 63:10.

[30:21]  ² tc The LXX reads this verb as “you scourged/whipped me.” But there is no reason to adopt this change.

[36:19]  ³ tn The form in the MT is “your cry (for help).” See J. E. Hartley (Job [NICOT], 472-73) and E. Dhorme (Job, 547-48) on the difficulties.

[36:19]  ⁴ tn This part has only two words לֹא בְצָר (lo’ bÿtsar, “not in distress”). The negated phrase serves to explain the first colon.

[36:19]  ⁵ tc For the many suggestions and the reasoning here, see the commentaries.