34:12 Do you want to really live? 1
Would you love to live a long, happy life? 2
78:19 They insulted God, saying, 3
“Is God really able to give us food 4 in the wilderness?
78:37 They were not really committed to him, 5
and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
1 tn Heb “Who is the man who desires life?” The rhetorical question is used to grab the audience’s attention. “Life” probably refers here to quality of life, not just physical existence or even duration of life. See the following line.
2 tn Heb “[Who] loves days to see good?”
3 tn Heb “they spoke against God, they said.”
4 tn Heb “to arrange a table [for food].”
5 tn Heb “and their heart was not firm with him.”