283 THE ADDITIONS LXX JOB 2,9A-E IN translator ” 20. Some of the hapax legomena mentioned above are indeed part of these words and can not with ease be taken as unknown to the translator. This issue can thus not be decisive. Therefore, in the light of my above argument, I am inclined to argue these additions come from the hand of the translator. Finally, it is necessary to analyse the content of these additions. They seem to be an endeavour to explain some of the dilemmas which Job’s wife was experiencing. This ties in nicely with the tendency of the translator, located in Job 1, to stress the integrity of Job. The translator clearly antecepates questions against the steadfastness of Job in order to strengthen his description of the strength of character. These additions are hence of a different order than those located in chapter 42. There are more prominent differences between the Hebrew and the OG in this chapter. One significant example is the fact that the three friends of Job are actually called kings in verse 11: “Now when his three friends heard of all the troubles that had come upon him, they came to him, each one from his own country — Eliphaz, the king of the Thaimanites, Baldad, the tyrant of the Sauchites, Sophar, the king of the Minites. And they came to him of one accord, to comfort and to visit with him ”. This ties in with the description that Job was an important person to God in Chapter 1. This can, however, not be discussed in the present context. It needs to be done in conjunction with Job 42 21 where these friends are also called kings. However, this depiction naturally makes Job an important person. This is underlined by the way he is described by the translator. In Chapter 1, on the one hand, he is called a paıv. The noun ˜ paıv occurs in Job 1,8. 15. 17; 4,18, 29,5 and 42,8. On the other hand, Job ˜ is also called a uerapwn. This is true for 1,8 (in A); 3,19; 7,2; 19,15 and ¥ 16 ; 31,13 and 42,7. 8 (3x). In the LXX this lexeme practically always translates the noun db[. Concerning the Pentateuch Van der Kooij 22 has ,, argued that uerapwn refers to “particular servants of a king” a ¥ “ confidential attendant”. It is clear from the opening two chapters that Job is not an ordinary servant of the Lord, but a confidant! * * * The Greek version of Job has a unique profile compared to MT and other textual witnesses. In by far most of the instances these differences Ibid., 35-36. 20 Cf. REED, “Job as Jobab”, 31-55. 21 A. VAN DER KOOIJ, “Servant or Slave? The Various Equivalents of 22 Hebrew ‘Ebed in the Septuagint of the Pentateach”, XIII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies Ljubljana 2007 (ed. M.K.H. PETERS) (SCS 55; Atlanta, GA 2008) 228.