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Job 33:9-11
New English Translation
Job 33:9-11
New English Translation
9 [a] ‘I am pure, without transgression;
I am clean[b] and have no iniquity.
10 [c] Yet God[d] finds occasions[e] with me;
he regards me as his enemy.
11 [f] He puts my feet in shackles;
he watches closely all my paths.’
Footnotes
- Job 33:9 sn See Job 9:21; 10:7; 23:7; 27:4; ch. 31.
- Job 33:9 tn The word is a hapax legomenon; חַף (khaf) is from חָפַף (khafaf). It is used in New Hebrew in expressions like “to wash” the head. Cognates in Syriac and Akkadian support the meaning “to wash; to clean.”
- Job 33:10 sn See Job 10:13ff.; 19:6ff.; 13:24.
- Job 33:10 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Job 33:10 tn The Hebrew means “frustrations” or “oppositions.” The RSV has “displeasure,” NIV “faults,” and NRSV “occasions.” Rashi chose the word found in Judg 14:4—with metathesis—meaning “pretexts” (תֹּאֲנוֹת, toʾanot); this is followed by NAB, NASB.
- Job 33:11 sn See Job 13:27.
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