Job 21:20

Footnotes

1. 52 This word occurs only here. The word כִּיד (kid) was connected to Arabic kaid, “fraud, trickery,” or “warfare.” The word is emended by the commentators to other ideas, such as פִּיד (pid, “[his] calamity”). Dahood and others alter it to “cup”; Wright to “weapons.” A. F. L. Beeston argues for a meaning “condemnation” for the form, and so makes no change in the text ( 67 [1954]: 315–16). If the connection to Arabic “warfare” is sustained, or if such explanations of the existing can be sustained, then the text need not be emended. In any case, the sense of the line is clear.