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Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Isa 52:15) | 3 tn Heb “Because of him kings will shut their mouths,” i.e., be speechless. |
| (0.75) | (Luk 1:22) | 6 tn Grk “dumb,” but this could be understood to mean “stupid” in contemporary English, whereas the point is that he was speechless. |
| (0.50) | (Pro 31:8) | 2 sn The instruction compares people who cannot defend themselves in court with those who are physically unable to speak (this is a figure of speech known as hypocatastasis, an implied comparison). The former can physically speak, but because they are the poor, the uneducated, the oppressed, they are unable to conduct a legal defense. They may as well be speechless. |
