02_Burnight-co_347_370 28/10/14 10:35 Pagina 360 360 JOHN BURNIGHT There are also contextual and intertextual reasons to prefer this interpretation. As discussed above, in 4,3-4 Eliphaz has utilized ter- minology that elsewhere describes the symptoms of fear, and the last word of 4,5 — immediately preceding $tary — is the verb lhbtw, which I have argued should be translated as “you are terri- fied”. If hary here is read as “fear” rather than “reverence”, then once again a semantic parallel to the fear imagery of 3,25 (as well as 4,3-4) is created. The second colon ($ykrd ~tw $twqt) continues both Eliphaz’s cri- tique and his parallelistic “response” to the last section of Job 3. Both expressions exhibit distant semantic parallelism with terms in Job’s opening speech: hwqt can be viewed as a response to Job’s mention of “those who long for (l ~ykxm) death” and rejoice when they find it in 3,21-22, as well as to Job’s overarching desire that he had never been born. According to this intertextual reading of Eliphaz’s words, he considers such hope — like Job’s “fear” — to be “folly”. Finally, the last term in 4,6b, $ykrd, is in distant repetitive par- allelism with wkrd in 3,23. As such, it will be helpful to view the term in its context in that verse in order to clarify the sense of Eli- phaz’s “response.” VI. Job 4,6b in light of Job 3,23 Job 3,23 reads: Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in? This verse is a continuation of Job’s question as to why “light” and “life” are given to those who “suffer” and are “bitter of spirit” in 3,21. Interpreters have long recognized the second colon as an ironic allusion to Job 1,10, in which the śātān tells God that Job’s righteousness is only due to the fact that God has protected him by “hedging him in” 35. Here, however, Job characterizes such “hedg- in synthetic rather than regular synonymous parallelism. Also see N. TUR- SINAI, The Book of Job. A New Commentary (Jerusalem 21967) 76-78. 35 Cf. e.g., HABEL, The Book of Job, 112; CLINES, Job 1–20, 101; ANDERSEN, Job, 109; PEAKE, Job, 76, and many others.