² tn Or “the mustache,” or perhaps “the beard.” Cf. KJV, NAB, NRSV “cover their lips.”

⁵ tn Heb “to cover her nakedness” (so KJV and many other English versions); cf. TEV “for clothing.”

¹ tn Heb “From the abundance of his horses he will cover you (with) their dust.”

⁴ sn Mourning rites included covering the lower part of the face. See Lev 13:45.

¹ tn The verb “covers” is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

³ tn The words “and is covered” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³ tn Heb “under you maggots are spread out, and worms are your cover.”

¹ tn Heb “put a cover over you” (see Ps 5:11).

³ tn Heb “in the covered [places],” i.e., in the inner man.

¹ sn Covered me with joy. “Joy” probably stands metonymically for festive attire here.

² tn The imperfect verb serves to express what the covenant pact would cover, namely, “that you take.”

¹ tn Heb “and David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.”

¹ tn Heb “to cover his feet,” an idiom (euphemism) for relieving oneself (cf. NAB “to ease nature”).

² tn Heb “covering his feet” (i.e., with his outer garments while he relieves himself).

³ tn Heb “and he brought over them the sea and covered them.”

² tn Or “shielding” (NIV); Heb “the veil of the covering” (cf. KJV).

¹ tn The words “still covered” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Heb “put a cover over them.” The verb form is a Hiphil imperfect from סָכַךְ (sakhakh, “cover, shut off”). The imperfect expresses the psalmist’s wish or request.

² sn The word is “circle; dome”; here it is the dome that covers the earth, beyond which God sits enthroned. A. B. Davidson (Job, 165) suggests “on the arch of heaven” that covers the earth.

² tn Heb “the waters prevailed 15 cubits upward and they covered the mountains.” Obviously, a flood of 20 feet did not cover the mountains; the statement must mean the flood rose about 20 feet above the highest mountain.