Psalms 10:6

10:6 He says to himself,

“I will never be upended,

because I experience no calamity.”

Psalms 18:18

18:18 They confronted me in my day of calamity,

but the Lord helped me.


tn Heb “he says in his heart/mind.”

tn Heb “for a generation and a generation.” The traditional accentuation of the MT understands these words with the following line.

tn Heb “who, not in calamity.” If אֲשֶׁר (’asher) is taken as a relative pronoun here, then one could translate, “[I] who [am] not in calamity.” Some emend אֲשֶׁר to אֹשֶׁר (’osher, “happiness”; see HALOT 99 s.v. אֹשֶׁר); one might then translate, “[I live in] happiness, not in calamity.” The present translation assumes that אֲשֶׁר functions here as a causal conjunction, “because, for.” For this use of אֲשֶׁר, see BDB 83 s.v. אֲשֶׁר 8.c (where the present text is not cited).

tn The same verb is translated “trapped” in v. 5. In this poetic narrative context the prefixed verbal form is best understood as a preterite indicating past tense, not imperfect.

tn Heb “became my support.”