THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on Job

1:1a Uz: See Lam. 4:21.
1:1b perfect: Complete, lacking nothing; cf. 2Sam. 22:24.
1:3c, 1:16c sheep: 'Small cattle,' applying equally to both sheep and goats'
1:5d cursed: So ver. 11, and ch. 2:5, 9; see 1Kings 21:10, 13.
1:6e a: Lit. 'the;' so ver. 13, &c.: see 2Kings 4:18.
1:6f Satan: Meaning 'Adversary.' Lit. 'the Satan,' and so to ch. 2:7.
1:22a God: Or 'nor uttered anything unseemly against God.'
2:4b life: Lit. 'soul.'
3:3a, 3:23a man: Geber: so ch. 4:17; 14:10 (first), 14; 16:21 (first); 22:2 (first); 33:17 (second), 29; 34:7, 9, 34; 38:3; 40:7. It refers to strength, a cognate form (Gibbor) being used for 'mighty men,' 'heroes,' as Gen. 6:4; 2Sam. 23:8; Job 16:14.
3:4b +God: Heb. Eloah: see Note, Gen. 1:1. The word occurs many times in Job.
3:8c Leviathan: See Job 41:1; Ps. 74:14; 104:26; Isa. 27:1.
3:14d themselves: Or 'who ruined buildings.'
3:17e wearied: i.e. lit. 'whose strength is worn out.'
4:6a piety: Or 'thy fear of God.'
4:17b man: Enosh: see Ps. 8:4.
4:17c man: Geber: see ch. 3:3.
4:19d as: Or 'before.'
4:21e tent-cord: Or 'glory.'
5:2f envy: Or 'angry zeal.'
5:6g of: Lit. 'germinate from.'
5:7h man: Adam.
5:7i sparks: Lit. 'sons of the flame.'
5:13a wise: Or 'clever.'
5:13b headlong: Or 'overthrown.'
5:17c man: Enosh: see Ps. 8:4.
5:24d peace: Or 'prospers.'
6:2e all: Lit. 'together.'
6:3f vehement: Or 'uttered at random.'
6:10g that: Or 'for.'
6:11h patience: Lit. 'lengthen out my soul' or 'life.'
6:13i soundness: Or 'capacity.'
6:14a fainting: Or 'despairing.'
6:17b diminish: Or 'flow.'
6:30c taste: Lit. 'palate:' see ch. 12:11.
7:1d man: Enosh, and so ver. 17, and ch. 9:2: see Ps. 8:4.
7:9e Sheol: See Ps. 6:5.
7:16a breath: Or, as often, 'vanity:' see Gen. 4:2.
7:21b transgression: Properly 'audacious sin,' 'rebellion' (against God). as ch 8:4 and 34:37.
8:13c profane: Or ungodly.
8:14d web: Lit. 'house.'
8:17e stoneheap: Or 'well.'
8:17f stones: That is, 'his roots go down far below the upper soil.'
8:18g he: i.e. God.
8:18h destroy: Lit. 'swallow up.'
8:21i Whilst: Or 'until.'
9:3a him, 9:22a, 9:23a, 9:24a he: i.e. God.
9:4b peace: Or 'hath prospered.'
9:8c waves: Or 'extent.'
9:9d chambers: i.e. the starry regions.
9:13e helpers: Lit. 'helpers of Rahab:' see ch. 26:12.
9:29f wicked: Or 'accounted wicked.'
9:29g vain: Or 'why do I trouble myself for nothing?'
9:30a purity: Or 'with lye.'
9:33b umpire: Or 'mediator.'
10:3c please: Or 'Is it meet for.'
10:4d man, 10:5d mortal: Enosh, as chs. 4:17; 5:17; 13:9; &c.
10:16e increaseth: Or 'if it riseth.'
10:20f revive: Or 'brighten up,' as ch. 9:27.
11:2a justified: Or 'gain his cause.'
11:6b realised: Or 'known.'
11:12c senseless: Lit. 'empty.'
11:12d like: Others read 'Man is stupid, he is senseless, man is born like.'
11:17e life: 'lifetime,' as Ps. 39:5.
12:3f understanding: Lit. 'heart:' so ver. 24, and chs. 34:10, 34; 36:5.
12:5g ease: Or 'Contempt for misfortune is, in the thought of him that is at ease, prepared for those whose feet totter.'
12:6h bringeth: Others read 'who carry +God in their hand.'
12:10a spirit: Or 'breath.'
12:18b weakeneth: Lit. 'openeth,' 'relaxeth:' see ch. 30:11.
12:19c priests: Or 'chief men.'
12:20d speech: Lit. 'lip.'
12:20e trusty: Or 'eloquent.'
12:25f stagger: Or 'wander.'
13:9g mocketh, mock: Or 'deceiveth ... deceive.'
13:9h man: Enosh: see Ps. 8:4.
13:16a a: Some read 'He himself shall be my salvation, for a.'
13:28b as: Or 'and he whom thou pursuest consumeth as a rotten thing, as,' &c.
14:6c accomplish: Or 'enjoy.'
14:17a up: Or 'sewest up,' or 'addest to.'
14:19b, 15:14 man: Enosh: see Ps. 8:4.
15:4c piety: Or 'fear of God.'
15:5d iniquity: Some read 'iniquity teacheth thy mouth.'
15:10e us: Or 'Among us is a greyheaded man, yea an aged one.'
15:15f ones: See ch. 5:1.
15:29a upon: Or 'and their prosperous condition shall not bow from fulness toward.'
15:30b his: That is, the Almighty's (ver. 25).
15:32c day: That is, 'the day of his death.'
15:34d, 16:7d family: Or 'assembly,' 'company.'
16:5e solace: Or 'movement.'
16:13f arrows: Or 'archers.'
16:14a man: Gibbor: see ch. 3:3.
16:15b rolled: Or 'defiled.'
16:19c he: i.e. God.
16:21d arbitration: See ch. 9:33.
17:1e corrupt: Or 'my spirit is undone.'
17:6f proverb: Or 'byword.'
17:12g They: Doubtless the friends of Job.
17:14h grave: Others 'corruption,' as Ps. 16:10.
18:2i for: Or, as some, 'make an end of.'
18:3k stupid: Or 'unclean.'
18:13a body: Lit. 'of his skin.'
19:3b me: Or 'to stun me;' others, 'wrong me.'
19:6c overthrown: Or 'entangled.'
19:17a strange: Or 'odious.'
19:17b entreaties: Or 'my bad odour.'
19:22c flesh: This would mean 'slander me:' see Dan. 3:8.
19:25d Last: See Isa. 48:12.
19:25e earth: Or 'shall stand up above the dust.'
19:26f flesh: Or 'yet with my flesh.'
20:10g wealth: Or 'what his violence took away.'
20:11h strength: Others, 'of his secret sins;' see Ps. 90:8.
20:13i mouth: Lit. 'palate.'
20:19a away: Or 'he pillaged.'
20:20b craving: Heb. 'belly.'
20:22c wretched: Or 'all the power of need.'
20:23d he: i.e. God.
20:23e, 20:28e his: i.e God's.
20:23f flesh: Or 'as (or, with) his food.'
21:16a prosperity: Or 'happiness,' lit. 'good,' as ver. 25.
21:17b he: i.e. God.
21:17c sorrows: Some read 'their lot.'
21:19d his: i.e. the wicked man's.
21:24e fat: Or 'his vessels are full of milk.'
21:25f tasted: Lit. 'eaten.'
21:32g tomb: Or 'and he keeps watch over the mound.'
22:8h rank: Lit. 'he whose person is accepted.'
22:11a waters: Others, 'Or seest thou not the darkness, and the floods of waters which.'
22:15b mark: Some read 'Dost thou follow.'
22:15c wicked: Or 'vain.'
22:16d off: Or 'huddled away,' as by the rising flood.
22:16e with: Or 'has flowed away like.'
22:20f his: Lit. 'their.'
22:21g him, 22:29g, 22:30g he: i.e. God.
22:29h they: i.e. his ways.
22:29i eyes: Or 'looks.'
23:2k bitter: Perhaps 'violent.'
23:3l come: Or 'I would come.'
23:8m forward, backward: Or, for verses 8 and 9, 'to the east ... to the west ... to the north ... to the south.'
23:9a hand: See Note m at ver. 8.
23:12b heart: Or 'than mine appointed portion.'
24:5c their: Lit. 'and to the.'
24:9d poor: Or 'take in pledge what the poor has on him.'
24:16e in: Some render it, 'that they had marked in the daytime.'
24:18f He: i.e. the wicked man, -- carried away rapidly as a waif upon the waters.
25:4a, 25:6a man: Enosh: see Ps. 8:4.
25:6b worm: Or 'maggot.'
25:6c man: Adam.
26:3d is: Or 'sound wisdom.'
26:6e destruction: Abaddon: so chs. 28:22; 31:12.
26:10f circle: Or 'ordained a circle.'
26:12g up: Some read 'stilleth.'
26:12h Rahab: Egypt: see ch. 9:13; Isa. 30:7; 51:9.
26:13i formed: Or 'pierced.'
27:1k continued: Or 'took up again:' so ch. 29:1.
27:3a +God: Spirit of Eloah: see Eccles. 12:7; Num. 16:22; 27:16; Heb. 12:9.
27:8b off: Others, 'though he get gain.'
27:8c away: Or 'giveth ease to.'
27:19d more: According to others, 'and is not gathered.'
28:1e Surely: Or 'For.'
28:3f Man: i.e. the miner.
28:4g inhabitants: Or 'the sojourner.'
28:4h men: Enosh.
28:8i beasts: Lit. 'The sons of pride;' and so ch. 41:34.
28:13a Man: Enosh.
28:17b glass: Or 'crystal.'
28:18c Corals: Only here and Ezek. 27:16, from a root meaning, 'heights,' i.e. high in value; precious.
28:18d crystal: Only used here, from a root meaning, 'to freeze,' (or 'congeal.')
28:18e rubies: Or 'pearls,' as Prov. 3:15; 8:11; 20:15; 31:10; Lam. 4:7.
28:28f Lord: Adonai.
29:4g youth: Lit. 'autumn:' it was the beginning of the civil year.
29:5h men: Or 'children.'
29:6i milk: Or 'butter.'
29:10k hushed: Lit.'was hidden.'
29:14a mantle: Elsewhere 'robe;' it is the large outer garment worn by Orientals.
29:22b dropped: See Amos 7:16.
29:24c not: Or 'I smiled on them when they were without courage.'
30:3d into: Or 'they gnaw.'
30:11e he: i.e. God.
30:11f my: Some read 'his.'
30:22a to: Or 'on.'
30:22b away: Or 'causest my welfare (well-being) to melt away.'
30:22c substance: Others read 'Thou dissolvest me by tempest,' explained as 'Thou hast terrified me.'
30:24d he: i.e. God.
30:24e destroyeth: Or 'But in overthrow doth not one stretch out his hand? in destruction doth he not raise a cry?'
31:3f misfortune: Lit. 'what is strange:' see Isa. 28:21.
31:26a sun: Lit. 'light.'
31:29b when: Or 'that.'
31:30c mouth: Lit. 'palate.'
31:39d death: or 'despised.'
32:2a Elihu: Meaning, 'God (or, whose God) is He.'
32:2b Buzite: Gen. 22:21.
32:4c speaking: Lit. 'awaited Job during his words.'
32:8d man: Enosh.
32:11e say: Or 'examined the subject.'
32:15f amazed: Or 'were afraid.'
32:18g me: Lit. 'my belly.'
33:6h thou: Some have 'I am from (or for) God according to what thou hast said.'
33:6i out: Strictly, 'nipped off,' as by the potter.
33:10a he: i.e. God.
33:11b marketh: Or 'watcheth.'
33:12c man: Enosh: see Ps. 8:4.
33:17d, 33:23d man: Adam: see Ps. 8:4.
33:17e man: Geber: see Note, ch. 3:3.
33:18f sword: Or 'dart.'
33:19g bones: Or 'and the multitude of his bones with constant pains.'
33:23h duty: Or 'uprightness,' i.e. in judging himself.
33:24i Deliver: Elsewhere 'redeem.'
33:26k his: i.e. God's.
33:26l man: Enosh: see Ps. 8:4.
33:27m before: Or 'He (the repentant man) will look towards men, and say,' or 'He (God) will look towards men, and the man will say.'
34:5a judgment: Or 'right,' as vers. 4, 6.
34:6b wound: Lit. 'arrow.'
34:8c workers: As ver. 22; Ps. 5:5.
34:10d understanding: Lit. 'heart;' so ver. 34; ch. 12:3.
34:17e All-just: Or 'Mighty Just.'
34:23f him: Or 'that he should go.'
34:29g disturb: Or 'condemn.'
34:29h alike: Or 'only.'
34:31i he: i.e. Job.
34:36a of: Lit. 'amongst.'
34:37b rebellion: Elsewhere 'transgression,' see ch. 7:21, but distinct from 'transgress,' 1Sam. 2:24.
35:15c know: Others read 'because it is not so, his anger punishes, and Job doth not know.
36:3d Creator: Strictly, 'Worker,' here.
36:4e perfect: Elsewhere also 'upright.'
36:5f understanding: Lit. 'heart,' see ch. 12:3.
36:9g increased: Or 'acted proudly.'
36:12a sword: Or 'dart.'
36:13b godless: Or 'hypocrites.'
36:14c unclean: Or 'like to those devoted to infamy.'
36:16d fatness: Some read 'thy table would be quiet and full of fatness.'
36:17e judgments: Lit. 'judgment,' 'sentence.'
36:20f off: Lit. 'taken up.'
36:25g man: Enosh: Ps. 8:4.
36:27h formeth: Lit 'according to his vapour.'
36:28i abundantly: Or 'upon the multitude of mankind.'
36:30k him: Or 'upon it.'
36:30l sea: Or 'with the roots of the sea doth he cover himself.'
36:32m, 37:3m lightning: Lit. 'light,' as ch. 37:11.
36:32n strike: Or 'dischargeth it against the foe.'
37:3o forth: Or 'he directeth it.'
37:4p flashes: Lit. 'them:' see preceding verse.
37:7a work: Or 'that all men, whom he hath made, may know him.'
37:11b cloud: Or 'he spreadeth abroad his lightning-cloud.'
37:12c circuit: Lit. 'world.'
37:15d lightning: Lit. 'light;' as ver. 11, see ch. 36:32.
37:20e shall: 'If one must speak, he shall.'
37:22f gold: Others, 'the golden light.'
37:23g judgment: Elsewhere 'right.'
37:23h afflict: Or 'answer.'
37:24i heart: Or 'none clever in heart shall see him.'
38:10a out: Lit. 'broke.'
38:14b It: i.e. the earth.
38:15c light: i.e. darkness was their 'light.'
38:39a appetite: Lit. 'life:' see ch. 33:20.
39:6b wilderness: Heb. Arabah: see Josh. 3:16.
39:9c buffalo: Or 'great gazelle.'
39:17d wisdom: Lit. 'for God hath made her forget wisdom.'
40:2a him: Or 'Will the caviller contend with the Almighty?'
40:14b praise: Or 'confess unto.'
40:15c behemoth: Perhaps the hippopotamus.
40:21d lotus-bushes: Or 'shady shrubs.'
41:1e leviathan: The crocodile, it would seem, as ch. 3:8.
41:1f cord: Or 'and his tongue, with a cord which thou wilt sink?'
41:2g rush-rope: Or 'rush.'
41:23a fused: Or 'molten,' as ch. 37:18: the same word as 'firm' in ver. 24.
41:26b harpoon: Or 'coat of mail.'
41:30c mire: Or 'he spreadeth himself on sharp pointed things, as on mire.'
41:33d earth: Lit. 'dust,' as ch. 30:6.
41:34e beasts: As ch. 28:8.
42:3a knowledge, 42:4a me: See ch. 38:2, 3.
42:11b money: Heb. Kesitah: see Note to Gen. 33:19.
42:14c Jemimah: 'Beautiful as the day.'
42:14d Keziah: 'Cassia.'
42:14e Keren-happuch: 'Horn of paint.'

	September 9, 2008:Christianity and Politics: The Sarah Palin Selection	Just a few more weary days and then... I'll fly away... And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
	August 28, 2008:New Orleans and the Hand of God
	August 10, 2008:NCHS Class of 1978 Revisited
	March 20, 2008:Traditions