NOTES ON THE BOOK OF JOB

Job 1:7 Some add “seeking someone to destroy” to indicate Satan's reason.

1:9 When Satan can’t get us to question our actions, he gets us to question our motives.

1:20 Compare II Sam 12:21-23 for handling grief. Also see Genesis 37:34-35, II Kings 6:33 and II 

Kings 4:26-28.

Job 9:17 This should be translated “push on the hairline" (not “tempest”)” in accord with an early 

north Syrian custom whereby a king would reject a petitioner with a smack on the forehead. (Edmard 

Greenstein, BAR)

9:30 Job is convinced that even if he is innocent, God will frame him (put him in a muddy pit).

Job 11:5-6 There are two sides to wisdom—one accessible to us and the other side known only to God. 

This is similar to Kafka's character K in The Trial.

Job 13:15 Other translations not as positive in tone. It boils down to a choice of going with the ketiv 

(what is written) or the qere form (what is to be spoken). (George Grose, Christianity Today, Sept. 

2018)

Job 19:20 The old KJV phrase “skin of my teeth” should probably be translated to indicate that Job's

teeth are beginning to spew forth from his mouth due to a disease such as leprosy. (Biblical Archeology 

Review BAR, Summer 2020, p. 59)

Job 31:1-12 The progression of sin described in these verses is like that found in James 1:14-15.

31:13-15 This is similar to Galatians 3:28.

31:35 see Ezekiel 9:4,6

Job 36:4 Dahood proposes, basis usage in the Ebla tablets, that "Perfect" is a designation for God

Job 37:16 see note on Job 36:4.

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