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Job 36:10-12
New English Translation
Job 36:10-12
New English Translation
10 And he reveals[a] this[b] for correction,
and says that they must turn[c] from evil.
11 If they obey and serve him,
they live out their days in prosperity
and their years in pleasantness.[d]
12 But if they refuse to listen,
they pass over the river of death,[e]
and expire without knowledge.
Footnotes
- Job 36:10 tn The idiom once again is “he uncovers their ear.”
- Job 36:10 tn The revelation is in the preceding verse, and so a pronoun must be added to make the reference clear.
- Job 36:10 tn The verb שׁוּב (shuv, “to turn; to return”) is one of the two major words in the OT for “repent”—to return from evil. Here the imperfect should be obligatory—they must do it.
- Job 36:11 tc Some commentators delete this last line for metrical considerations. But there is no textual evidence for the deletion; it is simply the attempt by some to make the meter rigid.
- Job 36:12 tn This is a similar expression to the one in Job 33:18, where the suggestion was made by many that it means crossing over the canal or river of death. Some retain the earlier interpretation of “perish by the sword” (cf. NIV).
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