140:9 As for the heads of those who surround me –
may the harm done by 1 their lips overwhelm them!
140:11 A slanderer 2 will not endure on 3 the earth;
calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down. 4
1 tn Heb “harm of their lips.” The genitive here indicates the source or agent of the harm.
2 tn Heb “a man of a tongue.”
3 tn Heb “be established in.”
4 tn Heb “for blows.” The Hebrew noun מַדְחֵפֹה (madkhefoh, “blow”) occurs only here in the OT.