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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Job 22:17
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:41:50 -0500

This is for Steve Miller.

Dear Steve,

In Job 22:17 the translations are rendering LMW as "to us":

Job 22:17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone,’
and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

But HCSB has a textual note saying that it is following the Syriac and LXX. It says that the Hebrew MT reads "him." This seems a distributive singular for the initially plural third person participial verb. The suffix on MMNW in the middle of the verse is related. LMW does not yield first person suffixes, so MMNW has a third singular suffix, and LMW is in agreement with it.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





  • [b-hebrew] Job 22:17, Harold Holmyard, 07/24/2007

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