Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie>]

At 10:28 17/09/2004, "wattswestmaas" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net> wrote:

> Judge is an innacurate translation. Any comments please?

Reyburn, W. D. (1992). A handbook on the book of Job. UBS handbook series; 
UBS helps for translators (Page 187). New York: United Bible Societies. 
deals with this verse thus:

>> I must appeal for mercy to my accuser: since  Job  has  no  possibility  of
answering or defending himself before God, he has no recourse but to  throw
himself on God's mercy. Translations differ in their rendering of the  term
translated accuser by RSV. TEV and others have 'judge.' It is evident  that
Job's opponent is also the one who  judges  him,  and  'judge'  appears  to
render the term better in English than does  'accuser'  which  carries  no
special legal connotation. Appeal for mercy must often be  restructured  to
say, for example, 'ask God to be kind to me'? or 'beg the one who judges  me
to have mercy on me.'



Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
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