[8:10] 1 tn The sentence begins emphatically: “Is it not they.”
[8:10] 2 tn The “and” is not present in the line. The second clause seems to be in apposition to the first, explaining it more thoroughly: “Is it not they [who] will instruct you, [who] will speak to you.”
[8:10] 3 tn The noun may have been left indeterminate for the sake of emphasis (GKC 401-2 §125.c), meaning “important words.”
[8:10] 4 tn Heb “from their heart.”
[21:29] 5 tc The LXX reads, “Ask those who go by the way, and do not disown their signs.”
[21:29] tn The idea is that the merchants who travel widely will talk about what they have seen and heard. These travelers give a different account of the wicked; they tell how he is spared. E. Dhorme (Job, 322) interprets “signs” concretely: “Their custom was to write their names and their thoughts somewhere at the main cross-roads. The main roads of Sinai are dotted with these scribblings made by such passers of a day.”
