139:16 Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. 1
All the days ordained for me
were recorded in your scroll
before one of them came into existence. 2
69:23 May their eyes be blinded! 3
Make them shake violently! 4
115:5 They have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see,
135:16 They have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see,
1 tn Heb “Your eyes saw my shapeless form.” The Hebrew noun גֹּלֶם (golem) occurs only here in the OT. In later Hebrew the word refers to “a lump, a shapeless or lifeless substance,” and to “unfinished matter, a vessel wanting finishing” (Jastrow 222 s.v. גּוֹלֶם). The translation employs the dynamic rendering “when I was inside the womb” to clarify that the speaker was still in his mother’s womb at the time he was “seen” by God.
2 tn Heb “and on your scroll all of them were written, [the] days [which] were formed, and [there was] not one among them.” This “scroll” may be the “scroll of life” mentioned in Ps 69:28 (see the note on the word “living” there).
3 tn Heb “may their eyes be darkened from seeing.”
4 tn Heb “make their hips shake continually.”