Discovery Box| (0.38) | (Pro 11:5) | 2 sn The wicked may think that they can make their way through life easier by their wickedness, but instead it will at some point bring them down. |
| (0.38) | (Pro 11:2) | 3 sn This proverb does not state how the disgrace will come, but affirms that it will follow pride. The proud will be brought down. |
| (0.38) | (Pro 1:13) | 1 tn Heb “find.” The use of the verb מָצָא (matsaʾ, “to find”) is deliberate understatement to rhetorically down-play the heinous act of thievery. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 140:1) | 1 sn Psalm 140. The psalmist asks God to deliver him from his deadly enemies, calls judgment down upon them, and affirms his confidence in God’s justice. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 109:1) | 1 sn Psalm 109. Appealing to God’s justice, the psalmist asks God to vindicate him and to bring severe judgment down upon his enemies. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 70:2) | 2 tn The four prefixed verbal forms in this verse are understood as jussives. The psalmist is calling judgment down on his enemies. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 62:4) | 5 sn The enemies use deceit to bring down their victim. They make him think they are his friends by pronouncing blessings upon him, but inwardly they desire his demise. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 55:3) | 5 tc The verb form in the MT appears to be a Hiphil imperfect from the root מוֹט (mot, “to sway”), but the Hiphil occurs only here and in the Kethib (consonantal text) of Ps 140:10, where the form יַמְטֵר (yamter, “let him rain down”) should probably be read. Here in Ps 55:3 it is preferable to read יַמְטִירוּ (yamtiru, “they rain down”). It is odd for “rain down” to be used with an abstract object like “wickedness,” but in Job 20:23 God “rains down” anger (unless one emends the text there; see BHS). |
| (0.38) | (Psa 42:6) | 1 tn Heb “my God, upon me my soul bows down.” As noted earlier, “my God” belongs with the end of v. 6. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 11:6) | 3 sn The image of God “raining down” brimstone on the objects of his judgment also appears in Gen 19:24 and Ezek 38:22. |
| (0.38) | (Job 28:4) | 3 sn This is a description of the mining procedures. Dangling suspended from a rope would be a necessary part of the job of going up and down the shafts. |
| (0.38) | (Job 28:5) | 1 sn The verse has been properly understood, on the whole, as comparing the earth above and all its produce with the upheaval down below. |
| (0.38) | (Job 4:3) | 4 tn The “feeble hands” are literally “hands hanging down.” This is a sign of weakness, helplessness, or despondency (see 2 Sam 4:1; Isa 13:7). |
| (0.38) | (2Ki 20:11) | 2 tn Heb “made the shadow return, on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, back ten steps.” |
| (0.38) | (2Ki 7:17) | 3 tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.” |
| (0.38) | (2Ki 3:23) | 3 tn Heb “Each struck down his counterpart.” The presumption is that the armies are wiped out, not just that the kings killed each other. |
| (0.38) | (1Ki 15:8) | 1 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.” The Old Greek also has these words: “in the twenty-eighth year of Jeroboam.” |
| (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 11:11) | 1 tn Heb “lie with.” The verb שָׁכַב (shakav) “to lie down” can be a euphemism for going to bed for sexual relations. |
| (0.38) | (1Sa 23:8) | 1 tn Heb “So Saul mustered all his army for battle to go down to Keilah to besiege against David and his men.” |
