¹ tn Or “cannot receive.”

⁶ tn Heb “they cannot find.”

² tn Or (perhaps) “you cannot accept.”

¹ tn Heb “a man cannot be.”

² tn Heb “cannot be numbered because of abundance.”

² tn Or “things that cannot be put into words.”

² tn Heb “you will not know”; NIV “you cannot foresee.”

⁹ tn Heb “he cannot find”; or “he does not find.”

² tn Heb “dwell” or “settle”; NAB “her feet cannot rest.”

² tn Heb “All of your delights cannot compare with her.”

¹ tn Heb “[I am] confined and I cannot go out.”

¹ tn Heb “for their eyes are smeared over so they cannot see, so their heart cannot be wise.”

² sn The statement illustrates the principle: That which cannot produce fruit does not produce fruit.

¹ tn Or perhaps, “cannot,” here and in the following two lines. The imperfect forms can indicate capability.

² sn They cannot be bought off, for they have a lust for bloodshed.

¹ tn Heb “too amazing [is this] knowledge for me, it is elevated, I cannot attain to it.”

⁴ tn Heb “which cannot be counted because of abundance.” The imperfect verbal form indicates potential here.

⁴ tn Heb “cannot be counted” or “cannot be numbered.” The term הִמָּנוֹת (himmanot, Niphal infinitive construct from מָנָה, manah, “to count”) is rendered literally by most translations: “[cannot] be counted” or “[cannot] be numbered” (KJV, ASV, RSV, MLB, NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, JPS, NJPS). However, the nuance “count” might function as a metonymy of effect for cause, that is, “to supply.” What is absent cannot be supplied (cause) therefore, it cannot be counted as present (effect). NAB adopts this approach: “what is missing cannot be supplied.”

³ tn Grk “I cannot convince myself.” BDAG 792 s.v. πείθω 3.a states, “οὐ πείθομαι w. acc. and inf. I cannot believe Ac 26:26” (see also BDAG 586 s.v. λανθάνω).

¹ tn “Let us thank God for his gift which cannot be described with words” (L&N 33.202).