Job 13:15 — “I will hope in him”, or “I have no hope”?
Job 13:15 presents both “though he slay me, yet will I trust him” and “I have no hope” as readings, without settling between them. The margin and the written consonants point in different directions.
What the APB prints.
Every witness, on the record.
What a blind committee did here.
The APB's translation committee works blind: it is never told it is translating the Bible, never given a book name or a verse number, and it never sees the witnesses above. Whatever it did at this verse, it did on the language alone — and its record is public.
The blind committee record supplies no rationale note for this crux. The APB text at Job 13:15 uses the negative reading, rendering the speaker as having no hope. For the pericope, the audit verdict is “clean.”
The case for each reading.
If the margin (“in him”)
Reading A is the Masoretic qere, a marginal reading dated in the packet as “Masoretic apparatus, medieval.” Its instruction is specific: readers are to pronounce the form meaning in him, yielding I will hope in him. That reading accounts for the hopeful alternative in the question and makes the line a declaration of hope even as Job speaks of being slain. The case for A rests on the margin’s prescribed pronunciation, not on a different consonantal text: the packet says that the scribes wrote one form and directed readers to say the other.
If the letters (“not”)
Reading B follows the consonantal text of the Masoretic Text (Westminster Leningrad Codex). Its witness row identifies the reading as not, “I have no hope,” and explicitly says that the consonantal text has the negative. This is also the reading printed in the APB at Job 13:15, where the speaker says that he will be slain and has no hope before continuing to argue his ways to his face. The case for B therefore gives priority to what is written in the supplied consonantal verse rather than to the marginal instruction for pronunciation.
The packet establishes a real tension between written consonants and a marginal instruction for reading, but supplies no rationale that resolves it. The variant changes whether this clause voices hope in him or no hope. It does not alter the supplied statements that he will slay Job, that Job will argue his ways to his face, or the following statement about salvation.
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