Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Robert Alter on Job 34:26

  

For their wickedness. Textual difficulties proliferate from here through verse 31. Instead of the Masoretic reshaʿim, “the wicked,” this translation reads rishʿam, “their wickedness.” (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 3:554)

 

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