¹ tn Heb “call [to] me in a day of trouble.”

² tn Heb “Know and see that this [man] is seeking trouble.”

² tn Heb “You are among [or “like”] those who trouble me.”

¹ tn Or “Trouble” The name is “Achor” in Hebrew, which means “disaster” or “trouble” (also in v. 26).

³ tn Heb “every hand of trouble comes to him.” The pointing of עָמֵל (ʿamel) indicates it would refer to one who brings trouble; LXX and Latin read an abstract noun עָמָל (ʿamal, “trouble”) here.

⁶ tn Or “troubles,” “suffering.” See Acts 19:21; 21:4, 11.

² tn Or “trouble.” This term is a NT hapax legomenon (BDAG 775 s.v. παρενοχλέω).

¹ tn Or “were oppressed by,” “were troubled with.” See L&N 22.17.

⁴ tn Grk “and make you free from care” = “we will keep you out of trouble.”

³ sn These two troubling types, the slacker and the destroyer, are closely related.

¹ sn This proverb is about the stability of the righteous in times of trouble.

² tn Heb “fury and indignation and trouble, a sending of messengers of disaster.”

¹ tn Heb “and [when] I pondered to understand this, troubling it [was] in my eyes.”

¹ tn Heb “in the trouble of man they are not, and with mankind they are not afflicted.”

⁴ tn Heb “in the day of trouble” (see Ps 27:5).

² tn Heb “[he is] their place of refuge in a time of trouble.”

⁴ sn The surging water is here a metaphor for trouble that endangers one’s life.

¹ tn Or “trouble on.” The word is “achor” in Hebrew (also in the following clause).

² tn The infinitive construct here explains how they brought trouble on Jacob.

¹ tn Heb “Valley of Achor,” so named because of the unfortunate incident recorded in Josh 7:1-26 (the name is explained in v. 26; the Hebrew term Achor means “disaster” or “trouble” [cf. TEV, CEV “Trouble Valley”]).