² tn Or “lower.”

² tn Heb “lowering of hands.”

³ tn Or “lower Sheol.”

² tn Heb “for death, to the lower earth.”

¹ tn Heb “and she hurried and lowered.”

¹ tn Or “who was made a little lower than the angels.”

² tn Heb “and reveal the lowering of his arm.”

⁶ sn The Naphtuhites lived in Lower Egypt (the Nile Delta region).

² sn The descendants of Mizraim settled in Upper and Lower Egypt.

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

² tn Heb “lower legs.” On the meaning of the Hebrew noun, which occurs only here, see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena (SBLDS), 112. A cognate Akkadian noun means “lower leg.”

² tn Heb “lower legs.” On the meaning of the Hebrew noun, which occurs only here, see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena (SBLDS), 112. A cognate Akkadian noun means “lower leg.”

³ tn Heb “they sank down.” The Hebrew verb מָכַךְ (makhakh, “to lower; to sink”) occurs only here in the Qal.

¹ tn Heb “and they hurried and they lowered.” Their speed in doing this shows their presumption of innocence.

³ tn Heb “I will uncover her foundations.” The term “foundations” refers to the lower courses of the stones of the city’s outer fortification walls.

² sn The allusion here is to going down from the temple to the palace, which was on a lower eminence. See 36:12 in its context.

² tn Heb “lower regions.” This refers to Sheol and forms a merism with “sky” in the previous line. See Pss 63:9; 71:20.

² sn Zoan was located in the Egyptian delta in the north; Hanes was located somewhere in southern region of lower Egypt, south of Memphis; the exact location is debated.

³ tn The verb “fall” is used here as it was in Job 4:13 to express becoming lower than someone, i.e., inferior.

² tn A. B. Davidson (Job, 90) offers a solution by taking “earth” to mean all the lower forms of life that teem in the earth (a metonymy of subject).