Job — Footnotes

Chapter 9

9:30 — or 'soap'.

Chapter 12

12:18 — The likely meaning is that God, having removed their symbol of authority, puts a loincloth on the kings which is worn for doing hard physical labor, and so depicts a slave.

Chapter 23

23:13 — he is in one is literal, meaning could be 'he is alone' (i.e. none is equal to him).

Chapter 24

24:24 — More precisely, the umbel.

Chapter 25

25:3 — his ambush follows LXX. Or 'his light' follows the MT. HOTTP was evenly split on a recommendation.

Chapter 26

26:5 — those that stay in them refers to animals and other forms of life which live in the waters.

Chapter 27

27:20 — The waters are those of a wadi which unexpectedly take the traveler by surprise.

Chapter 30

30:24 — Meaning of this verse is uncertain.

Chapter 31

31:10 — have sex with her, literally 'bow down on her'.

31:18 — i.e. the orphan

31:18 — i.e. the widow

Chapter 38

38:36 — a bird in ancient Egypt

Chapter 39

39:13 — pious in Hebrew is similar to 'stork' (which is literally, the pious one).