Job 29:5 | NET2full | STEP | when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me;

‏ Job 29:5

5 when the Almighty ^{▼▼tn Heb “Shaddai.”} was still with me
and my children were ^{▼▼tc Some commentators suggest that עִמָּדִי (ʿimmadi, “with me”) of the second colon of v. 6 (which is too long) belongs to the second colon of v. 5, and should be pointed as the verb עָמָדוּ (ʿamadu, “they stood”), meaning the boys stood around him (see, e.g., E. Dhorme, Job, 417). But as R. Gordis (Job, 319) notes, there is a purpose for the imbalance of the metric pattern at the end of a section.} around me;