Discovery Box| (0.38) | (Pro 11:24) | 2 tn Heb “increases.” The verb means that he grows even more wealthy. This is a paradox: Generosity determines prosperity in God’s economy. |
| (0.38) | (Pro 10:7) | 3 tn The editors of BHS suggest a reading “will be cursed” to make a better parallelism, but the reading of the MT is more striking as a metaphor. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 55:9) | 2 tn Heb “split their tongue,” which apparently means “confuse their speech,” or, more paraphrastically, “frustrate the plans they devise with their tongues.” |
| (0.38) | (Psa 45:7) | 6 tn Heb “from your companions.” The “companions” are most naturally understood as others in the royal family or, more generally, as the king’s countrymen. |
| (0.38) | (Job 39:26) | 1 tn This word occurs only here. It is connected to “pinions” in v. 13. Dhorme suggests “clad with feathers,” but the line suggests more the use of the wings. |
| (0.38) | (Job 19:29) | 1 tn The word “wrath” probably refers to divine wrath for the wicked. Many commentators change this word to read “they,” or more precisely, “these things.” |
| (0.38) | (Job 19:2) | 2 tn The MT has דָּכָא (dakhaʾ), “to crush” in the Piel. The LXX, however, has a more general word which means “to destroy.” |
| (0.38) | (Job 12:17) | 5 tn Some translate this “makes mad” as in Isa 44:25, but this gives the wrong connotation today; more likely God shows them to be fools. |
| (0.38) | (Job 10:2) | 2 tn The Hiphil imperative of יָדַע (yadaʿ) would more literally be “cause me to know.” It is a plea for God to help him understand the afflictions. |
| (0.38) | (Job 9:2) | 4 tn The preposition is אִם (ʾim, “with, before, in the presence of”). This is more specific than מִן (min) in 4:17. |
| (0.38) | (Job 5:1) | 2 tn The participle with the suffix could be given a more immediate translation to accompany the imperative: “Call now! Is anyone listening to you?” |
| (0.38) | (Job 2:11) | 4 tn The verb can mean that they “agreed together,” but it also (and more likely) means that they came together at a meeting point to go visit Job together. |
| (0.38) | (2Ch 21:10) | 2 tn Or “from Jehoram’s control”; Heb “from under his hand.” The pronominal suffix may refer to Judah in general or, more specifically, to Jehoram. |
| (0.38) | (2Ki 5:13) | 5 tn Heb “How much more [when] he said, ‘Wash and be healed.’” The second imperative (“be healed”) states the expected result of obeying the first (“wash”). |
| (0.38) | (1Ki 15:2) | 2 sn Abishalom (also in v. 10) is a variant of the name Absalom (cf. 2 Chr 11:20). The more common form is used by TEV, NLT. |
| (0.38) | (1Ki 2:32) | 2 tn Heb “because he struck down two men more innocent and better than he and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know.” |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 15:12) | 1 tn Traditionally, “counselor,” but this term is more often associated with psychological counseling today, so “adviser” was used in the translation instead. |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 5:10) | 1 tc 4QSama and the LXX lack the word “God,” probably due to harmonization with the more common biblical phrase “the Lord of hosts.” |
| (0.38) | (2Sa 4:7) | 1 tn After the concluding disjunctive clause at the end of v. 6, the author now begins a more detailed account of the murder and its aftermath. |
| (0.38) | (Rut 3:10) | 6 tn Heb “whether poor or rich” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); the more common English idiom reverses the order (“rich or poor”; cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT). |
