OET interlinear JOB 27:23

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: translate-symaction

יִשְׂפֹּ֣ק עָלֵ֣י⁠מוֹ כַפֵּ֑י⁠מוֹ

claps at,him hands,its

In this culture, people would clap their hands together as a symbolic action to express negative emotions such as grief, indignation, or derision. In this context, Job is speaking as if the wind were expressing derision at the wicked person. If it would be helpful to your readers, particularly if people in your culture clap their hands together to express positive emotions such as approval and admiration, you could explain the significance of this action in your translation. You could also name a gesture that people in your culture use to express derision. Alternate translation: “It is as if such a wind claps its hands at him in derision” or “It is as if such a wind points its finger derisively at him”

Note 2 topic: translate-symaction

וְ⁠יִשְׁרֹ֥ק עָ֝לָ֗י⁠ו

and,hisses on/upon/above=him/it

In this culture, people would make a hissing sound in order to express derision. Job is speaking as if the wind were also expressing derision at the wicked person by making such a sound. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could explain the significance of this action in your translation. You could also name a sound that people in your culture make in order to express derision. Alternate translation: “and makes a derisive hissing sound” or “and laughs derisively at him”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

מִ⁠מְּקֹמֽ⁠וֹ

from,place,its

This could mean: (1) that the wind Job is describing hisses at the wicked person from within the home that it has forced him to abandon. (Job says of the wind in verse 21, “it blasts him from his place.”) Alternate translation: “from within his former home, which this wind now occupies” (2) that the wind hisses at the wicked person now that he is out of his place. Alternate translation: “because he has had to abandon his home”