37:26 All day long he shows compassion and lends to others, 1
and his children 2 are blessed.
37:39 But the Lord delivers the godly; 3
he protects them in times of trouble. 4
37:40 The Lord helps them and rescues them;
he rescues them from evil men and delivers them, 5
for they seek his protection.
1 tn The active participles describe characteristic behavior.
2 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
3 tn Heb “and the deliverance of the godly [ones] [is] from the
4 tn Heb “[he is] their place of refuge in a time of trouble.”
5 tn The prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) consecutive carry on the generalizing tone of the preceding verse.