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Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
יִתֶּן־ל֣וֹ לָ֭בֶטַח וְיִשָּׁעֵ֑ן וְ֝עֵינֵ֗יהוּ עַל־דַּרְכֵיהֶֽם
gives to=him/it in,security and,supported and,eyes,his on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in ways,their
The pronoun He in its first instance and the pronoun his refer to God, and the pronoun he in its second instance and the pronoun him refer to a wicked person. The pronoun them refers to wicked people in general. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: “God gives a wicked person security, and that person is supported, but God’s eyes are on the ways of wicked people”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
יִתֶּן־ל֣וֹ לָ֭בֶטַח וְיִשָּׁעֵ֑ן
gives to=him/it in,security and,supported
If your language would not use the passive form he is supported, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. If you would need to say who does the action, the context indicates that it is God. Alternate translation: “God gives him security and supports him”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
יִתֶּן־ל֣וֹ לָ֭בֶטַח וְיִשָּׁעֵ֑ן
gives to=him/it in,security and,supported
These two phrases mean similar things. Job is using repetition to emphasize the idea that the phrases express. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could combine them. While Job seems to say that God actively gives security and support to wicked people, the idea is that God actually allows these things. Alternate translation: “God may allow a wicked person to feel a sense of security”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
וְ֝עֵינֵ֗יהוּ עַל־דַּרְכֵיהֶֽם
and,eyes,his on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in ways,their
Job is using one part of God, his eyes, to mean all of him in the act of seeing. Sight, in turn, represents awareness. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “but he watches their ways carefully” or “but he is very aware of their ways”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וְ֝עֵינֵ֗יהוּ עַל־דַּרְכֵיהֶֽם
and,eyes,his on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in ways,their
Job is speaking of how a person lives as if that were a way or path that the person was walking along. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “but he is very aware of how wicked people are living”
24:18-24 These sentiments appear to oppose Job’s observations, so some scholars suggest that they were the words of Bildad or Zophar. However, Job might have been pronouncing curses on the wicked, sarcastically quoting his friends’ views, or saying that the fate of the wicked presented by Eliphaz (5:2-7; 15:17-25), Bildad (8:8-19; 18:5-21), and Zophar (20:4-29) also overtakes the righteous (21:23-26).
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.