33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, 1 ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. 2 As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. 3 The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness 4 if he sins.’ 5
1 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
2 tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.
3 tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”
4 tn Heb “by it.”
5 tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”