141:8 Surely I am looking to you, 1 O sovereign Lord.
In you I take shelter.
Do not expose me to danger! 2
1 tn Heb “my eyes [are] toward you.”
2 tn Heb “do not lay bare my life.” Only here is the Piel form of the verb collocated with the term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “life”). In Isa 53:12 the Lord’s servant “lays bare (the Hiphil form of the verb is used) his life to death.”