⁴ tn Heb “[We hope] for a time of healing but behold terror.”

¹ tn Heb “[We hoped] for a time of healing but, behold, terror.”

¹ tn Or “righteousness” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “justice”; NLT “hope for deliverance.”

¹ tn The genitive after the construct is one of advantage—it is hope for the tree.

³ tn The word is to be interpreted as a metonymy; it represents what is hoped for.

³ sn The short phrase if not provides a ray of hope and inspires Abraham’s intercession.

³ tn Grk “a hope in God (which these [men] themselves accept too).” Because the antecedent of the relative pronoun “which” is somewhat unclear in English, the words “a hope” have been repeated at the beginning of the parenthesis for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “and my hope from the Lord.” The hope is for deliverance. The words “I have lost all” have been supplied in the translation in order to clarify the Hebrew idiom for the English reader.

² sn The subject of this proverb is the hope of the wicked. His expectations die with him (Ps 49). Any hope for long life and success borne of wickedness will be disappointed.

² tn Grk “hope of salvation” (“a helmet…for salvation” is an allusion to Isa 59:17).

³ sn What the prophets and Moses said. Paul argued that his message reflected the hope of the Jewish scriptures.

⁵ tn That is, concerning the hope that the dead will be resurrected. Grk “concerning the hope and resurrection.” BDAG 320 s.v. ἐλπίς 1.b.α states, “Of Israel’s messianic hope Ac 23:6 (ἐ. καὶ ἀνάστασις for ἐ. τῆς ἀν. [obj. gen] as 2 Macc 3:29 ἐ. καὶ σωτηρία).” With an objective genitive construction, the resurrection of the dead would be the “object” of the hope.

¹ tn This is a first class condition in the Greek text, so the example ends on a hopeful, positive note.

¹ sn The phrase by chance adds an initial note of hope and fortune to the expectation in the story.

¹ sn The people were filled with anticipation because they were hoping God would send someone to deliver them.

¹ tn Heb “and they will be afraid and embarrassed because of Cush their hope and Egypt their beauty.”

¹ sn The word “hope” (תּוֹחֶלֶת [tokhelet] from יָחַל [yakhal]) also has the implication of a tense if not anxious wait.

³ sn The meaning for Job is that death shatters all of man’s hopes for the continuation of life.

³ tn Heb “perhaps I will be built from her.” Sarai hopes to have a family established through this surrogate mother.

³ sn Previous passages in the book of Proverbs all but deny the possibility of hope for the fool. So this proverb is saying there is absolutely no hope for the self-conceited person, and there might be a slight hope for the fool—he may yet figure out that he really is a fool.