Ayub 30:5

30:5 They were banished from the community ¹  –

people ²  shouted at them

like they would shout at thieves ³  –

Ayub 19:7

Job’s Abandonment and Affliction

19:7 “If ⁴  I cry out, ⁵  ‘Violence!’ ⁶ 

I receive no answer; ⁷ 

I cry for help,

but there is no justice.

Ayub 39:7

39:7 It scorns the tumult in the town;

it does not hear the shouts of a driver. ⁸ 

[30:5]  ¹ tn The word גֵּו (gev) is an Aramaic term meaning “midst,” indicating “midst [of society].” But there is also a Phoenician word that means “community” (DISO 48).

[30:5]  ² tn The form simply is the plural verb, but it means those who drove them from society.

[30:5]  ³ tn The text merely says “as thieves,” but it obviously compares the poor to the thieves.

[19:7]  ⁴ tn The particle is used here as in 9:11 (see GKC 497 §159.w).

[19:7]  ⁵ tc The LXX has “I laugh at reproach.”

[19:7]  ⁶ tn The same idea is expressed in Jer 20:8 and Hab 1:2. The cry is a cry for help, that he has been wronged, that there is no justice.

[19:7]  ⁷ tn The Niphal is simply “I am not answered.” See Prov 21:13b.

[39:7]  ⁸ sn The animal is happier in open countryside than in a busy town, and on its own rather than being driven by a herdsman.