Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>]

Folks,

I did not know how to add attribution to that last post, but the study 
paper on a critical evaluation of the Massoretic text can be found here:

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:XONBPN4z6cgJ:www.friendsofsabbath.org/ABC/Bible/Old_Testament_Survey.pdf+euphemism+Job+1:11+hebrew&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us

These are papers and theses by certain people in the Worldwide Church of 
God, not a necessarily trustworthy source.

But if you look in the apparatus of Biblica Hebraica Stuttgartensia, you 
see that the editors likewise saw Job 1:5, 11; 2:5, 9 in this way. 
However the editors leave open, and I should too, the issue of whether 
the use of BRK is a scribal correction or a euphemistic use of the word 
in the original.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard