InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Job C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C37 C38 C39 C40 C41 C42
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
הֲיֵ֣שׁ מִ֭סְפָּר לִגְדוּדָ֑יו וְעַל־מִ֝֗י לֹא־יָק֥וּם אוֹרֵֽהוּ
[is],there? (Some words not found in UHB: [is],there? number to,troops_of,his and,on who? not rise light_of,his )
Job is using the question form for emphasis. If you would not use the question form for that purpose in your language, you could translate these questions as statements or as exclamations. Alternate translation: [There is no number to his troops! His light arises on everyone!]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
הֲיֵ֣שׁ מִ֭סְפָּר לִגְדוּדָ֑יו
[is],there? (Some words not found in UHB: [is],there? number to,troops_of,his and,on who? not rise light_of,his )
In this verse, Bildad is describing God’s greatness by saying that at night, there are too many stars in the sky to count, and by day, the sun shines all over the world. So in this context, the word troops implicitly refers to the stars as if they were soldiers. Alternate translation: [Is there a number to the stars?] or [There are too many stars in the sky to count!]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
וְעַל־מִ֝֗י לֹא־יָק֥וּם אוֹרֵֽהוּ
and,on who? not rise light_of,his
Bildad is using the term light by association to mean the sun. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [And upon whom does the sun not rise?] or [And the sun shines on everyone!]
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.