This is adopted by most modern commentators. But R. Gordis (Job, 308) shows that this change is not necessary, for עֶרֶךְ ('erekh) in the Bible means “order; row; ...

This is adopted by most modern commentators. But R. Gordis (Job, 308) shows that this change is not necessary, for עֶרֶךְ ('erekh) in the Bible means “order; row; ...

The word is well-known in the OT because of its identification as the kinsman-redeemer (see the Book of Ruth). ... erekh) in the Bible means “order; row ...

The mood of the chapter is not despair, but wisdom; it anticipates the divine speeches in the end of the book. ... 19); and only God has it, and only by ...

[19:12] tn Heb “they throw up their way against me.” The verb סָלַל ... erekh) in the Bible means “order; row; disposition,” and here “place.” An ...

The book will add that the disease afflicted him inwardly, giving him a foul breath and a loathsome smell (19:17, 20). ... erekh) in the Bible means “order ...

42:7 After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have ...

[13:19] sn Job is confident that he will be vindicated. But if someone were to show up and have proof of sin against him, he would be silent and die (literally ...

2:11 When Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country – Eliphaz the Temanite, ...

The Hebrew word for “stork” is the same word for “love”: חֲסִידָה (khasidah), an interpretation followed by the NASB. The most likely reading is “or are they the ...