Discovery Box| (0.42) | (Pro 21:24) | 5 sn The portrait in this proverb is not merely of one who is self-sufficient, but one who is insolent, scornful, and arrogant. |
| (0.42) | (Pro 21:20) | 3 tn Heb “he swallows it.” The imagery compares swallowing food with consuming one’s substance. The fool does not prepare for the future. |
| (0.42) | (Pro 21:2) | 1 tn Heb “in his own eyes.” The term “eyes” is a metonymy for estimation, opinion, evaluation. Physical sight is used figuratively for one’s point of view intellectually. |
| (0.42) | (Pro 20:9) | 1 sn The verse is a rhetorical question; it is affirming that no one can say this because no one is pure and free of sin. |
| (0.42) | (Pro 13:12) | 3 sn Failure in realizing one’s hopes can be depressing or discouraging. People can bear frustration only so long (W. G. Plaut, Proverbs, 153). |
| (0.42) | (Pro 7:18) | 1 tn The verb means “to be saturated; to drink one’s fill,” and can at times mean “to be intoxicated with.” |
| (0.42) | (Psa 94:9) | 1 tn Heb “The one who plants an ear, does he not hear? The one who forms an eye, does he not see?” |
| (0.42) | (Psa 69:26) | 3 tn Heb “they announce the pain of your wounded ones” (i.e., “the ones whom you wounded,” as the parallel line makes clear). |
| (0.42) | (Psa 62:8) | 1 tn To “pour out one’s heart” means to offer up to God intense, emotional lamentation and petitionary prayers (see Lam 2:19). |
| (0.42) | (Psa 41:9) | 1 tn Heb “man of my peace.” The phrase here refers to one’s trusted friend (see Jer 38:22; Obad 7). |
| (0.42) | (Psa 37:31) | 1 tn Heb “the law of his God [is] in his heart.” The “heart” is here the seat of one’s thoughts and motives. |
| (0.42) | (Psa 37:5) | 1 tn Heb “roll your way upon the Lord.” The noun “way” may refer here to one’s activities or course of life. |
| (0.42) | (Psa 35:10) | 2 tn Heb “[the one who] rescues.” The substantival participle in the Hebrew text characterizes God as one who typically rescues the oppressed. |
| (0.42) | (Psa 32:4) | 3 tn The translation assumes that the plural form indicates degree. If one understands the form as a true plural, then one might translate, “in the times of drought.” |
| (0.42) | (Psa 31:12) | 1 tn Heb “I am forgotten, like a dead man, from [the] heart.” The “heart” is here viewed as the center of one’s thoughts. |
| (0.42) | (Psa 26:2) | 1 tn Heb “evaluate my kidneys and my heart.” The kidneys and heart were viewed as the seat of one’s volition, conscience, and moral character. |
| (0.42) | (2Ch 20:8) | 2 tn Heb “for your name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “to honor you”). |
| (0.42) | (2Ch 6:38) | 2 tn Heb “your name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your honor”). |
| (0.42) | (2Ch 6:32) | 1 tn Heb “your great name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your great reputation”). |
| (0.42) | (1Ch 10:3) | 2 tn Heb “and they found him, the ones who shoot with the bow, and he was in pain from the ones shooting.” |
