Job 36 — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Chapter 36
Correction, power and the coming storm
Source chapters: [BHS36] Hebrew; [LXX36] Greek.
Thirty-three Hebrew verses and thirty-five displayed Greek units. Greek 36:28a–b are retained as additional rows; ηδω at 36:30 is preserved as a source transliteration, with its explanation in the row note, rather than silently supplied with Hebrew light.
Verse 36:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:1 Elihu continued and said:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:1 Elihu continued speaking:
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both introduce the continuation.
Verse 36:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:2 “Wait for me a little, and I will show you,
for there are still words on God’s behalf.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:2 “Wait for me a little longer, so that I may teach you;
for speech is still within me.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek Elihu’s remaining speech replaces Hebrew words on God’s behalf.
Verse 36:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:3 I will bring my knowledge from afar
and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:3 Taking up my knowledge from afar,
I will speak things just in relation to my works,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek my works differs from Hebrew my Maker; its relation of works to speaking is provisional.
Verse 36:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:4 For truly my words are not false;
one complete in knowledge is with you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:4 in truth, and not unjust words;
you understand unjustly.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek accuses the listener of unjust understanding, rather than claiming perfect knowledge for the speaker.
Verse 36:5 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:5 Look, God is mighty and does not despise;
He is mighty in strength of heart.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:5 Know that the Lord will certainly not reject the innocent;
mighty in strength of heart,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek specifies the innocent as the one not rejected; Hebrew leaves the object general.
Verse 36:6 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:6 He does not keep the wicked alive,
but gives justice to the afflicted.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:6 He will certainly not give life to the ungodly,
and He will give judgment to the poor.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both affirm judgment for the poor and deny life to the wicked.
Verse 36:7 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:7 He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous;
with kings upon the throne
He seats them forever, and they are exalted.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:7 He will not take His eyes from a righteous person;
with kings upon a throne
He will seat them for victory, and they will be raised high.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek eis nikos is rendered for victory, where Hebrew lanetsah is forever; a lasting or final force of the Greek phrase remains possible.
Verse 36:8 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:8 If they are bound in fetters
and caught in cords of affliction,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:8 if, fettered in handcuffs,
they are held in cords of poverty,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek handcuffs and poverty are more specific.
Verse 36:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:9 He tells them their deeds
and their transgressions, that they have acted proudly.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:9 He will announce to them their works
and their transgressions, that they will become strong.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek future strength differs from Hebrew arrogant self-exaltation.
Verse 36:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:10 He uncovers their ear for correction
and tells them to turn from wrongdoing.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:10 But He will hear the righteous person,
and He said that they will turn from injustice.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek God’s hearing the righteous replaces Hebrew opening the hearers’ ears.
Verse 36:11 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:11 If they listen and serve,
they finish their days in prosperity
and their years in pleasures.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:11 If they listen and serve,
they will finish their days amid good things
and their years in splendor.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both describe a prosperous outcome to listening and serving.
Verse 36:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:12 But if they do not listen, they pass away by the weapon
and expire without knowledge.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:12 But He does not preserve the ungodly,
because they do not wish to know the Lord
and because, when admonished, they were disobedient.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly names refusal to know the Lord and disobedient admonishment, while Hebrew names death by weapon and lack of knowledge.
Verse 36:13 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:13 The godless in heart store up anger;
they do not cry for help when He binds them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:13 Hypocrites in heart will arrange wrath;
they will not cry out because He bound them.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both describe inwardly godless people refusing to cry out while bound.
Verse 36:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:14 Their soul dies in youth,
and their life ends among the consecrated men.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:14 May their soul therefore die in youth,
and their life be wounded by angels,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek wishes youthful death and angelic wounding. Hebrew qedeshim names consecrated cult personnel, often understood here as disreputable; its sexual or institutional identification is not settled by this wording.
Verse 36:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:15 He rescues the afflicted through their affliction
and uncovers their ear through oppression.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:15 because they afflicted the weak and powerless;
He will set forth the judgment of the meek.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek grounds punishment in oppressing others, while Hebrew portrays affliction as the means of rescue and instruction.
Verse 36:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:16 He also entices you from the mouth of distress
to a broad place with no constraint beneath it;
what rests on your table is full of richness.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:16 Moreover, He deceived you out of an enemy’s mouth;
an abyss, a pouring-down beneath it;
and your table descended, full of fatness.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek deception, abyss and descending table differ sharply from Hebrew enticing into spaciousness and a supplied table. Its broken spatial clause remains provisional.
Verse 36:17 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:17 But you are filled with the judgment of the wicked;
judgment and justice take hold.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:17 Judgment will not be lacking from the righteous,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek promises justice for righteous people; Hebrew addresses Job as filled with the wicked’s judgment.
Verse 36:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:18 For anger—beware lest it entice you into scoffing;
let no great ransom turn you aside.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:18 and wrath will be upon the ungodly
because of the impiety of gifts they accepted for injustices.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly describes corrupt gifts and resulting wrath. Hebrew’s anger and sapeq clause is difficult, provisionally warning against scoffing; a blow or abundance is another proposal.
Verse 36:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:19 Will your cry put you beyond distress,
or all exertions of strength?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:19 Let your mind not willingly turn you away
from the plea of the powerless who are in constraint,
and all those strengthening might.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek is a warning about ignoring pleas and has a grammatically hanging final accusative phrase. Hebrew shua is provisionally a cry, though wealth is another proposal.
Verse 36:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:20 Do not pant for the night,
when peoples rise away from their place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:20 Do not draw out the night
for peoples to rise in their stead,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Both clauses are obscure. Greek prolonging night and replacement differ from Hebrew longing for night and peoples’ rising or removal from beneath them.
Verse 36:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:21 Take care; do not turn toward wrongdoing,
for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:21 but guard yourself from doing improper things;
for you chose for this one out of poverty.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek epi touton, for this one, retains a masculine prepositional phrase whose referent remains uncertain; it is not the direct object of chose. Hebrew chooses wrongdoing over affliction. The middle verb’s choosing sense is supported by [LSJ-36571]; the precise force of epi remains provisional.
Verse 36:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:22 Look, God is exalted in His strength;
who is a teacher like Him?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:22 Look, the Strong One will strengthen by His strength;
for who is a ruler like Him?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek active strengthening and ruler differ from Hebrew exaltation and teacher.
Verse 36:23 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:23 Who appointed His way for Him,
or who said, ‘You have done injustice’?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:23 Who is the one examining His works,
or who said, ‘He did unjust things’?
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek examination of works differs from assigning God His way, and quotes a third-person accusation rather than a direct address.
Verse 36:24 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:24 Remember to magnify His work,
which people have sung.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:24 Remember that His works are great,
which men began,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek men began is a difficult reading of erxan, which can also denote ruling or leading; Hebrew has sung. No claim of ordinary human authorship of divine works is imposed beyond this provisional wording. [LSJ-16051] supports both active beginning and ruling with a genitive; the alternative is genuine.
Verse 36:25 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:25 Every human has seen it;
a mortal looks from afar.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:25 Every human saw within himself,
as many mortals as are being wounded.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek inward seeing and wounded mortals replace Hebrew seeing from afar.
Verse 36:26 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:26 Look, God is great, and we do not know Him;
the number of His years is beyond searching.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:26 Look, the Strong One is great, and we will not know;
the number of His years is also boundless.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both affirm divine greatness beyond human comprehension and counting.
Verse 36:27 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:27 For He draws away drops of water;
they distill rain from His mist,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:27 Drops of rain are numbered by Him,
and they will be poured as rain into a cloud;
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek numbered drops and rain into cloud differ from Hebrew drawing and distilling water.
Verse 36:28 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:28 which the clouds pour down
and shower abundantly upon humankind.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:28 old things will flow,
and He shaded clouds over countless mortals.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek palaiomata literally old things is retained, without a guessed weather noun; Hebrew explicitly describes pouring clouds.
Verse 36:28a Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
— [No corresponding Hebrew source unit.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:28a He appointed a time for cattle,
and they know the order of their resting place.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The Greek publisher displays this additional 28a unit about cattle and ordered rest.
Verse 36:28b Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
— [No corresponding Hebrew source unit.]
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:28b At all these things, is your mind not astonished,
and is your heart not changed away from the body?
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The Greek publisher displays this additional 28b question. Its heart departing or changing from the body remains a strong, unusual image.
Verse 36:29 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:29 Can anyone understand the spreading of clouds,
the thunderings of His shelter?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:29 And if one understands the extensions of a cloud,
the evenness of His tent,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek evenness or equality differs from Hebrew thunderings; Greek continues a conditional construction.
Verse 36:30 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:30 look, He spreads His light over it
and covers the roots of the sea.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:30 look, He stretches ēdō over it
and covered the roots of the sea.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek ηδω is retained as ēdō; Hebrew has His light. Cox, NETS Iob, p.692 n.c [COX-NETS], associates the transliterated form with Hebrew his mist. This is an attributed lexical explanation, not an emendation to the Hebrew light.
Verse 36:31 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:31 For by these He judges peoples
and gives food in abundance.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:31 For by these He will judge peoples;
He will give food to the strong.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek to the strong differs from Hebrew in abundance.
Verse 36:32 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:32 He covers light with His palms
and commands it where to strike.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:32 He covered light upon hands
and gave a command concerning it through one meeting it.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both retain difficult light-and-hand imagery. Greek feminine it has no clear grammatical antecedent in the neuter light; the meeting agent or target is unresolved.
Verse 36:33 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
36:33 His thunder announces Him;
the cattle also announce what is coming.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
36:33 He will announce His friend concerning Him;
a possession also concerning injustice.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Both are exceptionally obscure. Hebrew reo is provisionally thunder and the cattle clause concerns something coming up; Greek has friend as an accusative and a fragment about possession and injustice. The Greek agent and pronoun references remain provisional; no weather meaning is silently imported.