Core Glossary
Core Glossary: Job
This glossary consolidates every load-bearing theological term identified in analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, spanning Job 1–42, with the core passage (Job 19:23–27) terms marked [CORE]. Terms already present in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json are marked [BASELINE — REUSE EXACTLY] and are not renegotiated here; this glossary documents only the Job-specific nuance, cross-curriculum collision risk, or (for new terms) the recommended Spanish rendering and risk tier, consistent with the baseline’s Critical/High/Medium/Low framework.
A. Baseline Terms Reused From Romans (No New Rendering — Cited for Cross-Reference Only)
| Term (Job usage) | Hebrew / Translit. | Baseline Spanish Rendering | Baseline Risk | Job Passages | Job-Specific Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Righteousness / righteous | צֶדֶק / צַדִּיק (tsedeq / tsaddiq) | justicia / justo | Critical | 4:17; 9:2; 25:4; 29-31 (practical); throughout | Job’s dialogues are a direct OT seedbed for Romans’ forensic justification argument; reuse “justicia” family for cross-curriculum consistency (see tsadaq, tsedaqah below for adjacent nuanced terms). |
| Sin | חָטָא (chata) | pecado | Medium | 1:5, 22; 2:10; 7:20-21 | Standard reuse; avoid the baseline-forbidden softening “falta.” |
| Holy One | קָדוֹשׁ (qadosh) | santo | Medium (baseline) | 6:10 | ”The words of the Holy One” — reuse baseline “santo” exactly. |
| God | אֱלוֹהַ / אֵל / אֱלֹהִים (Eloah/El/Elohim) | Dios | Critical | Throughout | See Part 2 cross-chapter note on divine-name variety flattened into Spanish. |
| Lord (Adonai, generic) | אֲדֹנָי | Señor | Critical | 28:28 (“fear of the Lord”) | Reuse baseline “Señor”; distinct from YHWH treatment below. |
| Glory (God’s) | כָּבוֹד (kabod, of God) | gloria | Medium (baseline) | Not prominent in Job’s God-speeches by this term, but relevant by doctrine | Distinguish from Job’s own human “honra” (kabod applied to Job himself, ch.29) — see Section B. |
| Peace | שָׁלוֹם (shalom) | paz | Medium (baseline) | Implied contrast term to shalvah (21) | Do not confuse with shalvah (this-worldly ease of the wicked) — see Section B. |
| Wisdom (fear of the Lord as) | — | (see chokmah, Section B — not in baseline; new term) | — | 28:28 | Cross-referenced here because it functions alongside baseline “Señor.” |
B. New Terms Introduced by Job (Not in Baseline — Recommended Renderings and Risk Tiers)
| Term (English gloss) | Hebrew / Transliteration | Recommended Spanish Rendering | Doctrine(s) | Risk Tier | Key Passages | Grounded Risk Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satan / the Accuser | הַשָּׂטָן / ha-satan | Satanás | Satan’s Limited Power under God’s Sovereignty | Critical | 1:6-12; 2:1-7 | Standard term, no rival-word confusion, but live dualism/syncretism risk: Latin American folk narratives (pacts with “el Diablo”), Santería/Espiritismo’s independent spirit-agency frameworks, and horror-genre pop culture can prime an image of Satan as an autonomous cosmic rival rather than a bounded, permission-requiring courtroom Accuser. Every occurrence requires a limiting teaching note. |
| Sons of God (divine council) | בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים (benei ha-Elohim) | los hijos de Dios [seres celestiales de la corte de Dios] — mandatory clarifying gloss | Sovereignty of God; Satan’s Limited Power | High | 1:6; 2:1; 38:7 | Direct lexical collision with the baseline’s Romans 8 “hijos de Dios” (adoptive sonship of believers). Without a clarifying gloss, learners will conflate the angelic divine council with their own adoption doctrine. |
| YHWH (the LORD) | יהוה | SEÑOR (small capitals; NOT “Jehová”) | Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God (all doctrines, frame narrative) | Critical | 1:6-12, 21; 2:1-7; 12:9; 38:1; 40:1,3,6; 42:1-11 | RV1960’s “Jehová” carries a strong contemporary sectarian association with Testigos de Jehová (denial of the Trinity/Christ’s deity), directly conflicting with this curriculum’s Christological commitments. Deliberate, documented departure from literal RV1960 lexical convention toward “SEÑOR,” per RVA2015/NVI convention. |
| The Almighty | שַׁדַּי (Shaddai) | el Todopoderoso | Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God | Medium | 4-5 and pervasive (31 of 48 OT occurrences) | Standard, safe rendering; risk is flattening into generic “Dios” and losing the book’s own emphasis on overwhelming power carried by this distinct epithet. |
| Integrity / blameless | תָּם (tam) | íntegro / integridad | Faith and Integrity amid Suffering | High | 1:1, 8; 2:3; 9:20-21; 27:5 | Must be taught alongside Romans’ grace/justification framework to prevent a moralistic reading where Job’s restoration appears earned by his own righteousness. |
| Upright | יָשָׁר (yashar) | recto | Faith and Integrity amid Suffering | Medium | 1:1, 8 | Standard pairing with tam; low independent risk. |
| Fear of God / the LORD | יְרֵא אֱלֹהִים / יִרְאַת אֲדֹנָי | temor de Dios / temor del Señor | Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God | Medium | 1:1, 9; 28:28 | Must convey reverent submission, not servile terror; climactic thesis statement at 28:28. |
| Bless/curse euphemism | בָּרַךְ (barak) | bendecir (contextually “maldecir”) | Satan’s Limited Power; Faith and Integrity amid Suffering | Medium | 1:5, 11; 2:5, 9 | Scribal euphemism; must render the intended sense (curse), not the literal root (bless), in these specific verses. |
| Curse (direct) | קָלַל (qalal) | maldecir | Faith and Integrity amid Suffering | Low | 3:1 | Standard, unambiguous. |
| Darkness | חֹשֶׁךְ (choshekh) | tinieblas / oscuridad | The Problem of Suffering | Low | 3:4-6; 10:21-22; 17:13 | Standard. |
| Death | מָוֶת (mavet) | muerte | Mediator/Redeemer Hope (contrast term) | Low | 3:21; 7:15 | Standard; sets up tension with resurrection-hope passages. |
| Hope | תִּקְוָה (tiqvah) | esperanza | Faith and Integrity amid Suffering | Medium | 6:11; 7:6; 14:7, 19 | Must convey concrete expectation of vindication, not vague optimism. |
| Human spirit/breath | רוּחַ (ruach, human) | espíritu / aliento | (distinguish from Holy Spirit doctrine) | Medium | 7:7; 17:1 | Must be distinguished in teaching from baseline’s Critical-risk “Espíritu Santo” (third Person of the Trinity) — this is the creaturely life-breath. |
| Sheol | שְׁאוֹל (Sheol) | el Seol (transliteration retained) | The Problem of Suffering; Mediator/Redeemer Hope | High | 7:9; 14:13; 17:13; 24:19 | Must NOT be rendered “el infierno” (hell) — Sheol in Job lacks the developed NT distinction of destinies; conflation risks importing NT eschatology anachronistically. |
| Hard/military service | צָבָא (tsaba) | jornada / servicio | The Problem of Suffering (minor) | Low | 7:1 | Standard. |
| Godless / hypocrite | חָנֵף (chaneph) | impío / hipócrita | Retribution Theology Challenged | Medium | 8:13; 13:16; 20:5 | Preserve fuller “estranged from God” sense, not merely modern “hypocrite.” |
| Be justified/declared righteous (verb) | צָדַק (tsadaq) | ser justificado / ser declarado justo (reuse “justicia” family) | Retribution Theology Challenged; connects to Salvation doctrine | Critical | 9:2; 9:15, 20 | OT seedbed for Romans’ forensic justification; use identical Spanish vocabulary family as baseline “justificación” for cross-curriculum consistency. |
| Arbiter / umpire | מוֹכִיח (mokiach) | árbitro / mediador | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope | High | 9:33 | First explicit mediator-longing term; must connect to baseline’s Critical “intercesión” caution — answered ultimately in Christ, not saints/Marian intercession. |
| Form/fashion | יָצַר (yatsar) | formar | Sovereignty of God (creation) | Low | 10:8-9 | Standard creation-language term. |
| Search out / fathom | חָקַר (chaqar) | escudriñar / sondear | Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God | Medium | 11:7; 28:3, 27 | Doctrine sound; teach the difference between Zophar’s self-serving use and the book’s own final use (ch.38-41). |
| Limit / furthest extent | תַּכְלִית (takhlit) | límite / perfección | Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God | Medium | 11:7 | Paired with chaqar; standard. |
| Wisdom | חָכְמָה (chokmah) | sabiduría | Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God | Medium-High | 12:2 (ironic); 28:12-28 (climactic) | Not independent of, but defined by, fear of God (28:28); guard against autonomous-human-achievement drift, informed by Catholic-tradition familiarity with personified Wisdom (Proverbs 8; Wisdom of Solomon). |
| Judgment / legal case / justice-process | מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat) | juicio / causa (legal) | The Problem of Suffering and Divine Justice | High | 13:18; 23:4; 27:2; 34:4-6 | Distinct from baseline “justicia” (status) — mishpat is the process/verdict; conflating risks blurring Job’s legal-courtroom argument against God. |
| Live again / revive | חָיָה (chayah) | ¿volverá a vivir? / revivir | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope | High | 14:14 | Must remain a genuine open question in ch.14 (skeptical context), not smoothed into confident resurrection affirmation prematurely — dramatic arc resolves partially at 19:25-27. |
| Renewal / relief | חֲלִיפָה (chalipha) | liberación / alivio | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope (minor) | Medium | 14:14 | Standard. |
| The wicked | רָשָׁע (rasha) | el impío / el malvado | Retribution Theology Challenged | High | 15:20; 18; 20; 21; 24; 27:7; 34 | Friends’ theology depends on rigid wicked-suffers/righteous-prospers correlation this term encodes; book systematically interrogates it — relevant also to contemporary “prosperity gospel” style retribution thinking. |
| Witness (heavenly) | עֵד (ed) | testigo | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope | Medium | 16:19 | Connect explicitly to mokiach (ch.9) and go’el (ch.19) as one developing motif. |
| Pledge / surety | עָרַב (arab) | fianza / prenda | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope (minor) | Medium | 17:3 | Standard legal-vocabulary term. |
| Wrong / twist justice | עִוֵּת (avat) | [CORE, ch.19] me ha agraviado / tuerce mi causa | The Problem of Suffering and Divine Justice | High | 19:6 | Must not be softened; Job’s raw direct accusation against God is essential to the book’s honest treatment of suffering. |
| Redeemer | גֹּאֵל / גָּאַל (go’el / ga’al) | [CORE] Redentor | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope | Critical | 19:25 | Central passage term; risk of premature Christological flattening or, conversely, of stripping canonical resonance; note adjacent Catholic Marian “Corredentora” title risk — teach as unique, singular Redeemer. Human theologian review required every occurrence. |
| Living (of the Redeemer) | חַי (chai) | [CORE] vive | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope | Medium | 19:25 | Standard; asserts active present capability to act. |
| At the last | אַחֲרוֹן (acharon) | [CORE] al fin / por último | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope; Sovereignty of God | Medium | 19:25 | Must preserve genuine temporal/eschatological open-endedness; do not force either a purely this-worldly or purely afterlife gloss. |
| Stand upon the dust/earth | קוּם עַל־עָפָר (qum al-aphar) | [CORE] se levantará sobre el polvo/la tierra | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope | High | 19:25 | Among the most exegetically contested clauses in the Hebrew Bible; preserve openness between “legal vindication in the world” and “resurrection” readings. |
| Flesh | בָּשָׂר (basar) | [CORE] carne | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope | High | 19:26 | Preposition ambiguity (“from/without my flesh”) reverses bodily-vs.-disembodied implication; preserve ambiguity, do not resolve in the translated text itself. |
| Behold / see (visionary) | חָזָה (chazah) | [CORE] contemplaré | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope | Medium | 19:26-27 | Distinguish from the plainer ra’ah (“veré”) in the same passage to preserve escalation. |
| See (plain) | רָאָה (ra’ah) | [CORE] verán / veré | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope | Low | 19:27 | Standard; contrast term to chazah. |
| Stranger / another | זָר (zar) | [CORE] otro / un extraño | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope | Low | 19:27 | Standard; underlines personal, non-transferable vindication. |
| Heart faints / kidneys consumed | כִּלְיוֹת / כָּלָה (kilyot / kalah) | [CORE] mi corazón desfallece / se consume de anhelo | Faith and Integrity amid Suffering | Medium | 19:27 | Must convey coexisting hope and longing, not despair alone — avoid contradicting the preceding confident “I know.” |
| Ease/prosperity (of the wicked) | שַׁלְוָה (shalvah) | tranquilidad / prosperidad | Retribution Theology Challenged | Medium | 21:23 | Do not confuse with baseline covenantal “paz” — this-worldly, morally neutral or negative ease. |
| Iniquity / guilt | עָוֹן (avon) | iniquidad / culpa | Retribution Theology Challenged | Medium | 22:5 | Standard; risk is narrative (a false accusation within the story), not lexical. |
| Shades of the dead | רְפָאִים (rephaim) | los muertos / las sombras | The Problem of Suffering (minor) | Medium | 26:5 | Teach alongside Sheol note; not an independent race of beings. |
| Honor/glory (human) | כָּבוֹד (kabod, of Job) | honra | Faith and Integrity amid Suffering | Medium | 29:1-6 | Distinguish from baseline “gloria” (God’s glory); Job claims social honor, not divine glory. |
| Oath | שְׁבוּעָה (shevuah) | juramento | Faith and Integrity amid Suffering | Low | ch.31 | Standard legal-vocabulary term. |
| Practical/lived righteousness | צְדָקָה (tsedaqah, lived conduct) | justicia (obras de justicia — clarifying gloss) | Faith and Integrity amid Suffering; Retribution Theology Challenged | Medium | ch.31 | Distinguish righteous conduct from forensic righteous status to avoid colliding with baseline’s Critical imputed-righteousness caution. |
| Covenant (idiomatic, minor) | בְּרִית (berit, “covenant with my eyes”) | pacto (idiomatic use — clarifying note) | (false-friend caution only) | Low | 31:1 | Not the theological covenant category (Davidic/Abrahamic) documented in baseline; flag as idiom. |
| Spirit of God (inspiring a speaker) | רוּחַ אֵל (ruach El) | el espíritu de Dios | (precursor to, not identical with, Holy Spirit doctrine) | Medium | 32:8 | Genuine but not fully Trinitarian OT category; distinguish from baseline’s Espíritu Santo. |
| Interpreter / mediator | מֵלִיץ (melits) | intérprete / mediador | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope | High | 33:23 | Direct thematic overlap with baseline’s Critical “intercesión” caution; anticipates but is not identical to Christ’s unique mediation. |
| Ransom | כֹּפֶר (kopher) | rescate / precio de rescate | The Mediator/Redeemer Hope | Critical | 33:24 | OT seedbed for NT atonement/ransom theology (cf. Mark 10:45); Elihu’s offer is anticipatory and human-presumed, not itself the fulfillment. |
| Greatness (of God) | גָּדוֹל (gadol) | grande / la grandeza de Dios | Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God | Low | 36:26 | Standard. |
| Found / lay a foundation | יָסַד (yasad) | fundar / poner los cimientos | Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God | Low | 38:4 | Standard creation-language term. |
| Knowledge | דַּעַת (da’at) | conocimiento | Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God | Low | 38:2 | Teach nuance: rebukes Job’s presumption to judge, not his earlier honest lament. |
| Behemoth | בְּהֵמוֹת (Behemoth) | Behemot (transliterated) | Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God | Medium | 40:15-24 | Teach as creature under God’s control, not an independent mythological chaos-power. |
| Leviathan | לִוְיָתָן (Livyatan) | Leviatán (transliterated) | Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God; Satan’s Limited Power (by extension) | Medium | 41:1-34 | Additional secular pop-culture associations (fantasy, Hobbes) may distract; redirect to text’s own argument. |
| Repent / relent / retract / be comforted | נָחַם (nacham) | me arrepiento / me retracto / me consuelo (retain full semantic range in teaching) | Repentance and Restoration | Critical | 42:6 | Job is not confessing the specific sins his friends alleged (God vindicates his speech, 42:7-8); “me arrepiento” alone risks implying such a confession — teach full semantic range (retract complaint / relent / find comfort). |
| Restore fortunes | שׁוּב שְׁבוּת (shub shevut) | restaurar su prosperidad / su suerte | Repentance and Restoration | High | 42:10 | Tied to Job’s intercessory prayer for his friends, not to merit accrued through suffering; must not be taught as a prosperity formula. |
C. Summary Risk Counts (Job-Specific New Terms, Section B)
| Risk Tier | Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 7 (Satan, YHWH, tsadaq/justified, go’el/Redeemer, kopher/ransom, nacham/repent, + tsedaqah flagged as collision-adjacent) | Human theologian review — every occurrence |
| High | 12 | Human theologian review |
| Medium | 20 | Native speaker review |
| Low | 12 | Automated review sufficient |
D. Escalation Notes for Phase 2
The following Job-specific terms must be added to the AI Translation Requirements’ escalation rules (extending 12_ai_translation_requirements.md for this curriculum) when Phase 2 begins:
- Any segment containing “Redentor” (go’el) in a Job context → mandatory human theologian review (parallel to baseline’s Christological escalation category).
- Any segment containing “Satanás” → mandatory human theologian review with limited-power teaching note.
- Any segment containing YHWH → verify “SEÑOR” (not “Jehová”) is used; flag any draft using “Jehová” as a forbidden substitution, extending the baseline’s forbidden-substitution list.
- Any segment containing “hijos de Dios” in a Job 1-2 or 38:7 divine-council context → mandatory clarifying gloss distinguishing from Romans 8 adoption doctrine.
- Any segment containing “me arrepiento” at Job 42:6 → flag for theologian review to verify the fuller semantic range (retract/relent/be comforted) is taught, not a bare sin-confession reading.
- Any segment containing “rescate” (kopher) or “mediador” (melits/mokiach) → cross-check against baseline’s “intercesión” forbidden-substitution guidance.
This glossary must be loaded alongside analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, the baseline translation_memory.json, and bible_term_registry.json before any Phase 2 Job segment translation begins.
Critical Risk Terms
Righteousness
Approved rendering: justicia
Transliteration: n/a (English gospel term; Job’s Hebrew equivalent is tsedeq/tsaddiq, see justified/the_wicked entries)
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: rectitud moral autónoma, mérito acumulado
Original: צֶדֶק / צַדִּיק
Category: Retribution Theology Challenged
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Job’s dialogues (4:17; 9:2; 25:4; chs.29-31) are a direct Old Testament seedbed for this same forensic-standing doctrine; use identical Spanish vocabulary across both curricula so learners do not perceive two different doctrines of righteousness.
Justification
Approved rendering: justificación
Transliteration: n/a (see tsadaq under ‘justified’)
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: proceso gradual de purificación interior
Original: צָדַק (causative/legal sense)
Category: Retribution Theology Challenged
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Job 9:2’s question (‘¿cómo puede el hombre ser justificado ante Dios?’) anticipates, in embryonic Old Testament form, the very question Romans 3-5 answers; forbidden substitution ‘justicia infundida’ applies equally here.
Lord
Approved rendering: Señor
Transliteration: Adonai (Heb., generic divine title)
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Señor mío (devotional-only)
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly for the generic divine title ‘Adonai’ (e.g. Job 28:28, ‘el temor del Señor’). Distinct from the covenant name YHWH, which this package renders ‘SEÑOR’ in small capitals — see yhwh entry. Do not conflate the two in teaching material.
God
Approved rendering: Dios
Transliteration: Eloah / El / Elohim (Heb.)
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: אֱלוֹהַ / אֵל / אֱלֹהִים
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Job’s Hebrew varies its divine names stylistically (Eloah especially concentrated in Job’s poetic register, ~41 occurrences) while Spanish flattens nearly all to ‘Dios’ per established convention; document this flattening so the Hebrew’s variety is not falsely assumed to carry distinct theological content at each occurrence. Shaddai is the one exception, retained distinctly as ‘el Todopoderoso’ — see shaddai entry.
Intercession
Approved rendering: intercesión
Transliteration: n/a (English gospel term; cf. Job’s mokiach/melits/go’el mediator vocabulary)
Doctrine: Prayer and Intercession
Rejected alternatives: intercesión de los santos o de la Virgen como mediadores necesarios ante Dios
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Job’s entire mediator-longing motif (mokiach 9:33; witness 16:19; pledge 17:3; go’el 19:25; melits 33:23) converges on this same Critical caution: none of these Old Testament figures are fulfilled by a saint- or Marian-mediated model of intercession, but anticipate Christ’s unique direct mediation.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Espíritu Santo
Transliteration: n/a (English gospel term; cf. Job’s ruach and ruach El vocabulary)
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: una fuerza impersonal, un espíritu guía o ancestral
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. MUST be kept distinct in teaching notes from Job’s creaturely ‘ruach’ (human breath/spirit, 7:7 — see human_spirit entry) and from Elihu’s ‘ruach El’ (32:8 — see spirit_of_god_inspiring entry), which is a genuine but not fully Trinitarian Old Testament category.
Redeemer
Approved rendering: Redentor
Transliteration: go’el / ga’al
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Rejected alternatives: un ungido más, entre otros santos o profetas venerados, Corredentora (Marian co-redemptrix framing)
Original: גֹּאֵל / גָּאַל
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:25, the core passage’s theological center. Standard, lexically safe across Catholic/Protestant traditions, but must be explicitly distinguished from the Catholic Marian title ‘Corredentora’ — Job’s Go’el is the unique, singular Redeemer of Scripture’s whole storyline, not one of a class of co-redeeming intercessory figures. Must not be prematurely flattened into full New Testament Christology, nor stripped of its legitimate canonical trajectory. Mandatory human theologian review, every occurrence.
Satan
Approved rendering: Satanás
Transliteration: ha-satan
Doctrine: Satan’s Limited Power under God’s Sovereignty
Rejected alternatives: un poder cósmico independiente y rival de Dios
Original: הַשָּׂטָן
Category: Satanology
Job 1:6-12; 2:1-7. Lexically standard with no rival-word confusion, but live dualism/syncretism risk in Spanish-speaking popular culture (pactos con ‘el Diablo,’ Santería/Espiritismo’s independently agentive spirit-beings, horror-genre tropes). Every occurrence requires a limiting teaching note establishing Satan’s bounded, permission-requiring courtroom role (1:12; 2:6).
Yhwh
Approved rendering: SEÑOR
Transliteration: YHWH
Doctrine: The Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Rejected alternatives: Jehová (sectarian collision with Testigos de Jehová, whose denial of the Trinity/Christ’s deity conflicts with this curriculum’s Christological commitments)
Original: יהוה
Category: God
Job’s narrative frame (1:6-12, 21; 2:1-7; 12:9) and God’s speeches/epilogue (38:1; 40:1,3,6; 42:1-11) — never the poetic dialogue itself. Render ‘SEÑOR’ in small capitals per RVA2015/NVI convention, a deliberate, documented departure from RV1960’s ‘Jehová.’ Verify at every occurrence; flag any draft using ‘Jehová’ as a forbidden substitution.
Justified
Approved rendering: ser justificado
Transliteration: tsadaq
Doctrine: Justification Before God (Old Testament Seedbed)
Rejected alternatives: ser hecho justo mediante un proceso (Tridentine infused-righteousness framing)
Original: צָדַק
Category: Retribution Theology Challenged
Job 9:2; 9:15, 20; 25:4. Direct Old Testament seedbed for Romans’ forensic justification argument. Use the identical baseline ‘justicia’/‘justificación’ vocabulary family for cross-curriculum consistency.
Ransom
Approved rendering: rescate
Transliteration: kopher
Doctrine: Atonement and Ransom, Anticipated
Original: כֹּפֶר
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 33:24. Direct Old Testament seedbed for New Testament atonement/ransom theology (cf. Mark 10:45, outside the Romans baseline but a natural cross-reference). Elihu’s offer is anticipatory and human-presumed, not itself the fulfillment — teach accordingly.
Repent Relent
Approved rendering: me retracto / me consuelo
Transliteration: nacham
Doctrine: Repentance and Restoration
Rejected alternatives: me arrepiento (sin calificar — el registro fijo de confesión de pecado en español devocional implica que Job confiesa los pecados específicos que sus amigos alegaron, lo cual el propio marco narrativo del libro niega en 42:7-8)
Original: נָחַם
Category: Repentance and Restoration
Job 42:6. God explicitly vindicates Job’s speech as more accurate than his friends’ (42:7-8), so a flat confession-register ‘me arrepiento’ risks implying the opposite of the book’s own verdict. Teach the fuller semantic range: retracting his legal complaint and relenting into humble, comforted submission after encountering God directly (42:5), not confessing alleged sins. Mandatory theologian review.
High Risk Terms
Covenant
Approved rendering: pacto
Transliteration: berit (Heb.)
Doctrine: Davidic Covenant
Rejected alternatives: contrato legal
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly for the theological covenant category. Job 31:1’s ‘covenant with my eyes’ is an IDIOMATIC personal vow only, not this theological category — see covenant_idiom entry for the required flagging distinction.
Grace
Approved rendering: gracia
Transliteration: n/a (English gospel term; cf. Job 42:10’s sovereign restoration)
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: favor merecido, recompensa por buenas obras
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Job’s restoration (42:10-17) must be taught as flowing from sovereign grace responding to restored relationship and Job’s intercession for his friends — not as a reward mechanically earned by his endurance. See restore_fortunes entry.
Faith
Approved rendering: fe
Transliteration: n/a (English gospel term; cf. Job’s tam/yashar and tiqvah vocabulary)
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: devoción religiosa general, creencia cultural heredada
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Job’s doctrine ‘Faith and Integrity amid Suffering’ names this same trust-in-God category; his hope (tiqvah) and integrity (tam) vocabulary express it narratively rather than using the abstract noun ‘fe’ directly.
Resurrection
Approved rendering: resurrección
Transliteration: n/a (English gospel term; cf. Job’s chayah and qum vocabulary)
Doctrine: Resurrection of Christ
Rejected alternatives: reencarnación
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Do not use this fully-resolved New Testament noun to translate Job 14:14’s genuinely skeptical question (chayah, ‘¿volverá a vivir?’) or Job 19:25’s genuinely ambiguous ‘se levantará’ (qum) — see live_again and stand_upon_dust entries, both of which must preserve their own open-endedness rather than being harmonized to this baseline noun.
Stand Upon Dust
Approved rendering: se levantará sobre el polvo
Transliteration: qum al-aphar
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Rejected alternatives: resucitará sobre mi tumba (forecloses toward resurrection reading), se pondrá de pie para juzgar en la tierra (forecloses toward legal-vindication-only reading)
Original: קוּם עַל־עָפָר
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:25. Among the most exegetically contested clauses in the Hebrew Bible. Must preserve the genuine open-endedness between ‘legal vindicator acting in the visible world’ and ‘rising over Job’s own grave, anticipating resurrection’ — do not force a single resolution.
Flesh
Approved rendering: carne
Transliteration: basar
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: בָּשָׂר
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:26. The Hebrew preposition (min) is genuinely ambiguous between ‘from my embodied vantage point’ and ‘apart from my flesh,’ reversing bodily-vs-disembodied implications. ‘De mi carne’/‘desde mi carne’ preserves the same ambiguity; do not resolve it in the translated text — supply a teaching note instead.
Wronged Justice
Approved rendering: me ha agraviado
Transliteration: avat
Doctrine: The Problem of Suffering and Divine Justice
Rejected alternatives: me ha permitido sufrir (softening euphemism), ha torcido mi causa (acceptable secondary rendering)
Original: עִוֵּת
Category: Problem of Suffering and Divine Justice
Job 19:6. Job’s raw, direct accusation that God himself has wronged him. Must not be softened into passive permissive language — the text’s rawness is essential to the book’s honest treatment of suffering.
Sons Of God
Approved rendering: los hijos de Dios [seres celestiales de la corte de Dios]
Transliteration: benei ha-Elohim
Doctrine: The Divine Council (Sons of God)
Rejected alternatives: hijos de Dios (unglossed — collides with Romans 8 adoption doctrine), ángeles (imports a NT category, loses the divine-council forensic setting)
Original: בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים
Category: Divine Council
Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7. Direct lexical collision with the baseline Romans Language Package’s ‘hijos de Dios’ for believers’ adoptive sonship (Romans 8). Mandatory clarifying gloss at every occurrence in Job.
Integrity
Approved rendering: íntegro
Transliteration: tam
Doctrine: Faith and Integrity amid Suffering
Original: תָּם
Category: Faith and Integrity
Job 1:1, 8; 2:3; 9:20-21; 27:5. Moral wholeness/wholehearted devotion, not sinless perfection. Must be taught alongside the baseline’s grace/justification framework so Job’s integrity is never read as a meritorious ground of blessing or restoration.
Sheol
Approved rendering: el Seol
Transliteration: Sheol
Doctrine: Sheol and Hope Beyond Death
Rejected alternatives: el infierno (imports developed NT/Dantean conscious punishment for the wicked, anachronistic to Job’s OT vocabulary), la tumba (loses the cosmic/personal dimension)
Original: שְׁאוֹל
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 7:9; 14:13; 17:13; 24:19. Transliteration retained. Supply an explanatory teaching note at every occurrence distinguishing Sheol from ‘el infierno.‘
Mediator Arbiter
Approved rendering: mediador
Transliteration: mokiach
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Rejected alternatives: árbitro (acceptable secondary rendering)
Original: מוֹכִיח
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 9:33. Job’s first explicit mediator-longing term. Must connect to the baseline’s Critical ‘intercesión’ caution — answered ultimately and uniquely in Christ, not saints/Marian intercession.
Wisdom
Approved rendering: sabiduría
Transliteration: chokmah
Doctrine: Wisdom and the Fear of the Lord
Rejected alternatives: sabiduría autónoma alcanzada por esfuerzo humano
Original: חָכְמָה
Category: Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Job 12:2 (ironic); 28:1-28 (climactic). Not independent from, but defined by, the fear of God (28:28). Guard against autonomous-human-achievement drift, especially given Catholic-tradition familiarity with personified Wisdom (Proverbs 8; Wisdom of Solomon).
Judgment Legal Case
Approved rendering: juicio
Transliteration: mishpat
Doctrine: The Problem of Suffering and Divine Justice
Rejected alternatives: justicia (conflates the process/verdict of justice with the forensic status term reserved for tsedeq), causa (acceptable secondary rendering)
Original: מִשְׁפָּט
Category: Problem of Suffering and Divine Justice
Job 13:18; 23:4; 27:2; 34:4-6. The legal verdict/process Job wishes to formally bring against God, distinct from ‘justicia’ (status).
Live Again
Approved rendering: ¿volverá a vivir?
Transliteration: chayah
Doctrine: Sheol and Hope Beyond Death
Rejected alternatives: resucitará (smooths ch.14’s genuine skepticism into premature confident resurrection affirmation)
Original: חָיָה
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 14:14. Must remain a genuine, doubtful open question in its ch.14 context — the dramatic arc only reaches more confident (though still ambiguous) hope at 19:25-27.
The Wicked
Approved rendering: el impío
Transliteration: rasha
Doctrine: Retribution Theology Challenged
Rejected alternatives: el malvado (acceptable secondary rendering)
Original: רָשָׁע
Category: Retribution Theology Challenged
Job 15:20; chs.18, 20, 21, 24, 27:7, 34. The friends’ theology depends on a rigid wicked-suffers/righteous-prospers correlation this term encodes, which the book systematically interrogates — directly relevant to contemporary Spanish-language prosperity-gospel-style retribution thinking.
Interpreter Mediator
Approved rendering: mediador
Transliteration: melits
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Rejected alternatives: intérprete (acceptable secondary rendering)
Original: מֵלִיץ
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 33:23. Elihu’s proposed heavenly mediator, ‘one of a thousand.’ Direct thematic overlap with the baseline’s Critical ‘intercesión’ caution; anticipates but is not identical to Christ’s unique mediation.
Restore Fortunes
Approved rendering: restauró su prosperidad
Transliteration: shub shevut
Doctrine: Repentance and Restoration
Rejected alternatives: recompensa por su fidelidad (transactional, prosperity-formula framing)
Original: שׁוּב שְׁבוּת
Category: Repentance and Restoration
Job 42:10. Explicitly tied to Job’s intercessory prayer FOR HIS FRIENDS, not to merit accrued through suffering well. Pair every occurrence with a teaching note against a prosperity-formula misreading, consistent with the baseline’s grace-versus-merit cautions (Romans 4:4-5; 11:5-6).
Medium Risk Terms
Sin
Approved rendering: pecado
Transliteration: chata (Heb.)
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: falta (minimizing euphemism)
Original: חָטָא
Category: Sin
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Job 1:5, 22; 2:10; 7:20-21. Avoid the baseline-forbidden softening ‘falta.‘
Holy
Approved rendering: santo
Transliteration: qadosh (Heb.)
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: puro en sentido ritual
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Applies to the divine title ‘the Holy One’ at Job 6:10 (‘las palabras del Santo’).
Glory
Approved rendering: gloria
Transliteration: kabod (Heb., of God)
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: כָּבוֹד
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly, and reserved STRICTLY for God’s own glory in Job. Job 29’s human honor/social standing (kabod applied to Job himself) must use ‘honra’ instead — see honor_human entry — never ‘gloria.‘
Peace
Approved rendering: paz
Transliteration: shalom (Heb.)
Doctrine: Peace with God
Rejected alternatives: tranquilidad emocional
Original: שָׁלוֹם
Category: God
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly. Must NOT be used for Job 21’s shalvah (the wicked’s this-worldly ease) — see ease_prosperity entry. Reserve ‘paz’ for covenantal/relational peace only.
Providence
Approved rendering: providencia
Transliteration: n/a (English theological term; cf. Job 38-41’s display of sovereignty)
Doctrine: Providence
Rejected alternatives: destino, la suerte
Inherited from Romans package, reused exactly for God’s personal governance dimension. Job’s God-speeches (chs.38-41) push further into INCOMPREHENSIBILITY, a dimension ‘providencia’ alone does not carry; pair with explicit ‘incomprensible/inescrutable’ language rather than assuming this one baseline term covers both governance and mystery.
Know Certainty
Approved rendering: yo sé
Transliteration: yada’ti
Doctrine: Faith and Integrity amid Suffering
Rejected alternatives: espero (I hope), quisiera creer (I would like to believe)
Original: יָדַעְתִּי
Category: Faith and Integrity
Job 19:25a. Experiential, covenantal certainty, not wishful hope. Resist devotional-paraphrase softening toward ‘espero,’ which collapses settled conviction into sentiment.
Lives
Approved rendering: vive
Transliteration: chai
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: חַי
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:25. Asserts the Redeemer’s active, ongoing existence and present capability to act. Do not use a weaker verb implying past or merely potential existence.
At The Last
Approved rendering: al fin
Transliteration: acharon
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Rejected alternatives: finalmente, en esta vida (forecloses toward this-worldly), al final de los tiempos (forecloses toward eschatological)
Original: אַחֲרוֹן
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:25. Must preserve the Hebrew’s genuine temporal open-endedness — do not force either a purely this-worldly or purely afterlife gloss not present in the source.
Behold Chazah
Approved rendering: contemplaré
Transliteration: chazah
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Rejected alternatives: veré (too flat; loses escalation over ra’ah in the same verse pair)
Original: חָזָה
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:26-27. Visionary, climactic, personal beholding, distinct from the plainer ra’ah in the very next clause. Use a different Spanish verb from ‘ver’ to preserve the escalation between the two Hebrew roots.
Heart Faints
Approved rendering: mi corazón desfallece de anhelo
Transliteration: kilyot / kalah
Doctrine: Faith and Integrity amid Suffering
Rejected alternatives: mis riñones se consumen (literal organ calque — comic register failure in Spanish)
Original: כִּלְיוֹת / כָּלָה
Category: Faith and Integrity
Job 19:27. Hebrew idiom for kidneys as the seat of deep emotion does not transfer literally; full paraphrase to the culturally correct organ (heart) is required. Must convey coexisting hope and longing, not despair alone, so as not to contradict the preceding confident ‘yo sé’ (19:25a).
Engrave Rock
Approved rendering: grabadas en la roca
Transliteration: chatsav / chaqaq
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Rejected alternatives: escritas (repeats v.23’s weaker verb, losing the escalation from scroll to stone)
Original: חָצַב / חָקַק
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:24. The strongest durability image available; must escalate visibly beyond v.23’s ‘escritas.‘
Shaddai
Approved rendering: el Todopoderoso
Transliteration: Shaddai
Doctrine: The Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Rejected alternatives: Dios (flattens and loses the book’s own emphasis on overwhelming power)
Original: שַׁדַּי
Category: God
31 of the Hebrew Bible’s 48 occurrences of Shaddai are in Job. Retain this distinct epithet consistently rather than varying with generic ‘Dios.‘
Upright
Approved rendering: recto
Transliteration: yashar
Doctrine: Faith and Integrity amid Suffering
Original: יָשָׁר
Category: Faith and Integrity
Job 1:1, 8. Standard pairing with ‘íntegro.‘
Fear Of God
Approved rendering: temeroso de Dios
Transliteration: yare Elohim
Doctrine: Faith and Integrity amid Suffering
Rejected alternatives: terror supersticioso
Original: יְרֵא אֱלֹהִים
Category: Faith and Integrity
Job 1:1, 9. Reverent awe and submission, not servile terror or superstitious dread.
Bless Curse Euphemism
Approved rendering: maldecir (uso eufemístico de ‘bendecir’)
Transliteration: barak
Doctrine: Satan’s Limited Power under God’s Sovereignty
Rejected alternatives: bendecir (literal — inverts the intended meaning in these four verses)
Original: בָּרַךְ
Category: Satanology
Job 1:5, 11; 2:5, 9. A deliberate scribal euphemism substituting ‘bless’ for its opposite. Render the INTENDED sense (curse), not the literal root, in these four specific verses only.
Hope
Approved rendering: esperanza
Transliteration: tiqvah
Doctrine: Faith and Integrity amid Suffering
Original: תִּקְוָה
Category: Faith and Integrity
Job 6:11; 7:6; 14:7, 19. Must convey concrete expectation of vindication, not vague optimism — the strong end of Spanish ‘esperanza’s’ semantic range.
Human Spirit
Approved rendering: espíritu
Transliteration: ruach (human)
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: רוּחַ
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 7:7; 17:1. The fleeting, insubstantial human life-breath. Must be clearly distinguished in teaching notes from the baseline’s Critical-risk ‘Espíritu Santo’ — this is creaturely breath, not the divine Person.
Godless Hypocrite
Approved rendering: impío
Transliteration: chaneph
Doctrine: Retribution Theology Challenged
Rejected alternatives: hipócrita (too narrowly modern-psychological, loses the fuller ‘estranged from God’ sense)
Original: חָנֵף
Category: Retribution Theology Challenged
Job 8:13; 13:16; 20:5. Someone outwardly religious but inwardly corrupt, or estranged from God — a key category in the friends’ retribution framework.
Search Out
Approved rendering: escudriñar
Transliteration: chaqar
Doctrine: The Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Rejected alternatives: sondear (acceptable secondary rendering)
Original: חָקַר
Category: Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Job 11:7; 28:3, 27. Teach the difference between Zophar’s self-serving use of divine incomprehensibility (ch.11) and the book’s own vindicated use of the same truth (chs.38-41).
Limit
Approved rendering: límite
Transliteration: takhlit
Doctrine: The Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Original: תַּכְלִית
Category: Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Job 11:7. Paired with chaqar; standard.
Renewal Relief
Approved rendering: liberación
Transliteration: chalipha
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Rejected alternatives: alivio (acceptable secondary rendering)
Original: חֲלִיפָה
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 14:14. Standard.
Witness
Approved rendering: testigo
Transliteration: ed
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: עֵד
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 16:19. Connect explicitly in teaching to mokiach (ch.9) and go’el (ch.19) as one developing mediator/advocate motif, not an isolated image.
Pledge Surety
Approved rendering: fianza
Transliteration: arab
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Rejected alternatives: prenda (acceptable secondary rendering)
Original: עָרַב
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 17:3. Job asks God himself to post legal surety on his behalf, since no one else will.
Ease Prosperity
Approved rendering: tranquilidad
Transliteration: shalvah
Doctrine: Retribution Theology Challenged
Rejected alternatives: paz (must never be used — collides with the baseline’s covenantal ‘peace with God’), prosperidad (acceptable secondary rendering)
Original: שַׁלְוָה
Category: Retribution Theology Challenged
Job 21:23. The wicked’s untroubled, this-worldly ease that empirically refutes the friends’ retribution thesis — morally neutral or negative, never covenantal peace.
Iniquity
Approved rendering: iniquidad
Transliteration: avon
Doctrine: Retribution Theology Challenged
Rejected alternatives: culpa (acceptable secondary rendering)
Original: עָוֹן
Category: Retribution Theology Challenged
Job 22:5-11. Used by Eliphaz for false, specific accusations against Job, corrected at 42:7-8. Risk is narrative (a false accusation within the story), not lexical.
Shades Of Dead
Approved rendering: los muertos
Transliteration: rephaim
Doctrine: Sheol and Hope Beyond Death
Rejected alternatives: las sombras (acceptable secondary rendering)
Original: רְפָאִים
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 26:5. Poetic term for the dead in the underworld; teach alongside the Sheol note, not as an independent race of shade-beings.
Fear Of The Lord
Approved rendering: el temor del Señor
Transliteration: yirat Adonai
Doctrine: Wisdom and the Fear of the Lord
Original: יִרְאַת אֲדֹנָי
Category: Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Job 28:28. The chapter’s climactic thesis, reusing the baseline ‘Señor’ convention. Must convey reverent submission, not comprehension of God’s ways — the closest the book comes to a positive definition of wisdom.
Honor Human
Approved rendering: honra
Transliteration: kabod (of Job, human)
Doctrine: Faith and Integrity amid Suffering
Rejected alternatives: gloria (would wrongly imply Job claims divine glory for himself — reserved strictly for God’s own glory per the baseline)
Original: כָּבוֹד
Category: Faith and Integrity
Job 29:1-6. Job’s own former social honor/respect, not God’s glory.
Lived Righteousness
Approved rendering: obras de justicia
Transliteration: tsedaqah (lived conduct)
Doctrine: Faith and Integrity amid Suffering
Rejected alternatives: justicia (sin calificar — colisiona con la justicia forense/imputada del bautismo bíblico)
Original: צְדָקָה
Category: Retribution Theology Challenged
Job ch.31 (care for the poor, widow, stranger). Distinct nuance from the baseline’s forensic ‘justicia’ (status before God); teach the distinction so Job 31 is not read as Job claiming to have earned righteous standing through good works.
Spirit Of God Inspiring
Approved rendering: el espíritu de Dios
Transliteration: ruach El
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: רוּחַ אֵל
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 32:8. Elihu’s claim of divine inspiration. A genuine but not fully Trinitarian Old Testament category; distinguish from the baseline’s Critical ‘Espíritu Santo.‘
Behemoth
Approved rendering: Behemot
Transliteration: Behemoth
Doctrine: The Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Rejected alternatives: gran bestia (loses the proper-noun, creature-specific force)
Original: בְּהֵמוֹת
Category: Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Job 40:15-24. Transliterated, standard across Spanish Bible traditions. Teach as a creature under God’s sovereign control, not an independent mythological chaos-power.
Leviathan
Approved rendering: Leviatán
Transliteration: Livyatan
Doctrine: The Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Original: לִוְיָתָן
Category: Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Job 41:1-34. Transliterated. Beyond the shared chaos-monster concern with Behemoth, contemporary Spanish pop-culture associations (fantasy fiction, Hobbes’s ‘Leviatán’) may distract; redirect teaching to the text’s own argument of God’s total mastery.
Low Risk Terms
Skin
Approved rendering: piel
Transliteration: or
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: עוֹר
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:26. Standard; pairs with ‘carne’ (basar) in the same verse.
See Raah
Approved rendering: veré
Transliteration: ra’ah
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: רָאָה
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:27. Ordinary sight, contrasted deliberately with chazah in the same passage; keep distinct from ‘contemplaré.‘
Stranger
Approved rendering: otro
Transliteration: zar
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: זָר
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:27. Underlines that Job’s hoped-for vindication is personal and non-transferable.
Write Inscribe
Approved rendering: escritas
Transliteration: katab
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: כָּתַב
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:23. Preserve the formal, durable, legal-deposition register — not casual note-taking.
Book Record
Approved rendering: libro
Transliteration: sefer
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: סֵפֶר
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:23. Standard, unambiguous.
Rock
Approved rendering: roca
Transliteration: tsur
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: צוּר
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:24. Standard equivalent; no false-friend concern.
Forever
Approved rendering: para siempre
Transliteration: la’ad
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: לָעַד
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 19:24. Standard.
Burnt Offering
Approved rendering: holocausto
Transliteration: olah
Doctrine: Faith and Integrity amid Suffering
Original: עֹלָה
Category: Faith and Integrity
Job 1:5. Standard sacrificial term across Spanish Bible traditions.
Curse
Approved rendering: maldecir
Transliteration: qalal
Doctrine: Faith and Integrity amid Suffering
Original: קָלַל
Category: Faith and Integrity
Job 3:1. Direct, un-euphemized curse verb, distinct from the barak-euphemism of chs.1-2.
Darkness
Approved rendering: tinieblas
Transliteration: choshekh
Doctrine: The Problem of Suffering and Divine Justice
Original: חֹשֶׁךְ
Category: Problem of Suffering and Divine Justice
Job 3:4-6; 10:21-22; 17:13. Recurring image for death, chaos, and the absence of God’s ordering light.
Death
Approved rendering: muerte
Transliteration: mavet
Doctrine: The Mediator/Redeemer Hope
Original: מָוֶת
Category: Mediation and Redemption
Job 3:21; 7:15. Standard; sets up tension with later resurrection-hope language.
Mortal Man
Approved rendering: el mortal
Transliteration: enosh
Doctrine: The Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Original: אֱנוֹשׁ
Category: Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Job 4:17. Human frailty contrasted with divine power in Eliphaz’s rhetorical question.
Hard Service
Approved rendering: servicio
Transliteration: tsaba
Doctrine: The Problem of Suffering and Divine Justice
Original: צָבָא
Category: Problem of Suffering and Divine Justice
Job 7:1. Human life described as a laborer’s or soldier’s hard service.
Form Fashion
Approved rendering: formar
Transliteration: yatsar
Doctrine: The Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Original: יָצַר
Category: Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Job 10:8-9. Creation language echoing Genesis 2:7.
Understanding
Approved rendering: entendimiento
Transliteration: binah
Doctrine: Wisdom and the Fear of the Lord
Original: בִּינָה
Category: Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Job 28. Paired with chokmah (wisdom) throughout the wisdom poem.
Oath
Approved rendering: juramento
Transliteration: shevuah
Doctrine: Covenant Language and Oath-Bound Integrity
Original: שְׁבוּעָה
Category: Faith and Integrity
Job ch.31. Job’s extended formal legal self-curse oath of innocence.
Covenant Idiom
Approved rendering: pacto (uso idiomático)
Transliteration: berit (idiomatic, ‘covenant with my eyes’)
Doctrine: Covenant Language and Oath-Bound Integrity
Original: בְּרִית
Category: Covenant
Job 31:1. An idiomatic personal vow, not the theological covenant category (Davidic/Abrahamic) documented in the baseline. Flag in teaching notes as a false-friend caution only.
Greatness Of God
Approved rendering: la grandeza de Dios
Transliteration: gadol
Doctrine: The Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Original: גָּדוֹל
Category: Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Job 36:26. Standard, transitional into the divine speeches of chs.38-41.
Foundation
Approved rendering: poner los cimientos
Transliteration: yasad
Doctrine: The Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Rejected alternatives: fundar (acceptable secondary rendering)
Original: יָסַד
Category: Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Job 38:4. God’s opening rhetorical question in his first speech.
Knowledge
Approved rendering: conocimiento
Transliteration: da’at
Doctrine: The Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Original: דַּעַת
Category: Sovereignty and Incomprehensibility of God
Job 38:2. Teach the nuance that God rebukes Job’s presumption to judge, not Job’s earlier honest lament itself.
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