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Isaiah 3:5
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Isaiah 3:5
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5 The people will treat each other harshly;
men will oppose each other;
neighbors will fight.[a]
Youths will proudly defy the elderly
and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.[b]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 3:5 tn Heb “man against man, and a man against his neighbor.”
- Isaiah 3:5 tn Heb “and those lightly esteemed those who are respected.” The verb רָהַב (rahav) does double duty in the parallelism.
Job 30:1
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Job 30:1
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Job’s Present Misery
30 “But now they mock me, those who are younger[a] than I,
whose fathers I disdained too much[b]
to put with my sheep dogs.[c]
Footnotes
- Job 30:1 tn Heb “smaller than I for days.”
- Job 30:1 tn Heb “who I disdained their fathers to set…,” meaning “whose fathers I disdained to set.” The relative clause modifies the young fellows who mock; it explains that Job did not think highly enough of them to put them with the dogs. The next verse will explain why.
- Job 30:1 sn Job is mocked by young fellows who come from low extraction. They mocked their elders and their betters. The scorn is strong here—dogs were despised as scavengers.
Job 30:12
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Job 30:12
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12 On my right the young rabble[a] rise up;
they drive me from place to place,[b]
and build up siege ramps[c] against me.[d]
Footnotes
- Job 30:12 tn This Hebrew word occurs only here. The word פִּרְחַח (pirkhakh, “young rabble”) is a quadriliteral, from פָּרַח (parakh, “to bud”) The derivative אֶפְרֹחַ (ʾefroakh) in the Bible refers to a young bird. In Arabic farhun means both “young bird” and “base man.” Perhaps “young rabble” is the best meaning here (see R. Gordis, Job, 333).
- Job 30:12 tn Heb “they cast off my feet” or “they send my feet away.” Many delete the line as troubling and superfluous. E. Dhorme (Job, 438) forces the lines to say “they draw my feet into a net.”
- Job 30:12 tn Heb “paths of their destruction” or “their destructive paths.”
- Job 30:12 sn See Job 19:12.
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