Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Isa 58:10) | 4 tn Heb “and your darkness [will be] like noonday.” |
| (0.80) | (Psa 37:6) | 1 tn Heb “and he will bring out like light your vindication, and your just cause like noonday.” |
| (0.71) | (Job 11:17) | 2 tn Heb “and more than the noonday life will arise.” The present translation is an interpretation in the context. The connotation of “arise” in comparison with the noonday, and in contrast with the darkness, supports the interpretation. |
| (0.57) | (Isa 16:3) | 2 tn Heb “Make your shade like night in the midst of noonday.” “Shade” here symbolizes shelter, while the heat of noonday represents the intense suffering of the Moabites. By comparing the desired shade to night, the speaker visualizes a huge, dark shadow cast by a large tree that would provide relief from the sun’s heat. |
| (0.40) | (Job 5:14) | 2 tn The verb מָשַׁשׁ (mashash) expresses the idea of groping about in the darkness. This is part of the fulfillment of Deut 28:29, which says, “and you shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness.” This image is also in Isa 59:10. |
