Job 15:20 | NET2full | STEP | All his days the wicked man suffers torment , throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant .

‏ Job 15:20

20 All his days ^{▼▼tn Heb “all the days of the wicked, he suffers.” The word “all” is an adverbial accusative of time, stating along with its genitives (“of the days of a wicked man”) how long the individual suffers. When the subject is composed of a noun in construct followed by a genitive, the predicate sometimes agrees with the genitive (see GKC 467 §146.a).} the wicked man suffers torment, ^{▼▼tn The Hebrew term מִתְחוֹלֵל (mitkholel) is a Hitpolel participle from חִיל (khil, “to tremble”). It carries the idea of “torment oneself,” or “be tormented.” Some have changed the letter ח (khet) for a letter ה (he), and obtained the meaning “shows himself mad.” Theodotion has “is mad.” Syriac (“behave arrogantly,” apparently confusing Hebrew חול with חלל; Heidi M. Szpek, Translation Technique in the Peshitta to Job [SBLDS], 277), Symmachus, and Vulgate have “boasts himself.” But the reading of the MT is preferable.}
throughout the number of the years
that ^{▼▼tn It is necessary, with Rashi, to understand the relative pronoun before the verb “they are stored up/reserved.”} are stored up for the tyrant. ^{▼▼tn This has been translated with the idea of “oppressor” in Job 6:23; 27:13.}