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Job 42:3-5
New English Translation
Job 42:3-5
New English Translation
3 you asked,[a] ‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’
But[b] I have declared without understanding[c]
things too wonderful for me to know.[d]
4 You said,[e] ‘Pay attention, and I will speak;
I will question you, and you will answer me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye has seen you.[f]
Footnotes
- Job 42:3 tn The expression “you asked” is added here to clarify the presence of the line to follow. Many commentators delete it as a gloss from Job 38:2. If it is retained, then Job has to be recalling God’s question before he answers it.
- Job 42:3 tn The word לָכֵן (lakhen) is simply “but,” as in Job 31:37.
- Job 42:3 tn Heb “and I do not understand.” The expression serves here in an adverbial capacity. It also could be subordinated as a complement: “I have declared [things that] I do not understand.”
- Job 42:3 tn The last clause is “and I do not know.” This is also subordinated to become a dependent clause.
- Job 42:4 tn This phrase, “you said,” is supplied in the translation to introduce the recollection of God’s words.
- Job 42:5 sn This statement does not imply there was a vision. He is simply saying that this experience of God was real and personal. In the past his knowledge of God was what he had heard—hearsay. This was real.
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