1 sn This contrasts the wicked motivated by hatred (animosity, rejection) with the righteous motivated by love (kind acts, showing favor).
2 sn Love acts like forgiveness. Hatred looks for and exaggerates faults; but love seeks ways to make sins disappear (e.g., 1 Pet 4:8).
3 tn The first word of the twentieth line begins with ר (resh), the twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
4 tn Or “women” (NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).