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Habakkuk 2:19

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2:19 The one who says to wood, ‘Wake up!’ is as good as dead 1 

he who says 2  to speechless stone, ‘Awake!’

Can it give reliable guidance? 3 

It is overlaid with gold and silver;

it has no life’s breath inside it.

1 tn Heb “Woe [to] the one who says.” On the term הוֹי (hoy) see the note on the word “dead” in v. 6.

2 tn The words “he who says” in the translation are supplied from the previous parallel line.

3 tn Though the Hebrew text has no formal interrogative marker here, the context indicates that the statement should be taken as a rhetorical question anticipating the answer, “Of course not!” (so also NIV, NRSV).



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