7:13 He prepares to use deadly weapons against him; 1
he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows. 2
26:10 who are always ready to do wrong 3
or offer a bribe. 4
35:21 They are ready to devour me; 5
they say, “Aha! Aha! We’ve got you!” 6
88:3 For my life 7 is filled with troubles
and I am ready to enter Sheol. 8
1 tn Heb “and for him he prepares the weapons of death.”
2 tn Heb “his arrows into flaming [things] he makes.”
3 tn Heb “who [have] in their hands evil.”
4 tn Heb “and their right hand is full of a bribe.”
5 tn Heb “and they cause their mouth to be wide against me.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here carries on the generalizing mood of the previous verse. For other examples of this use of the prefixed verbal form with vav consecutive, see GKC 329 §111.t.
6 tn Heb “our eye sees.” Apparently this is an idiom meaning to “look in triumph” or “gloat over” (see Ps 54:7).
7 tn Or “my soul.”
8 tn Heb “and my life approaches Sheol.”