² tn Heb “siege and stress.”

¹ sn The speech closes with a warning, “Watch out,” that also stresses culpability.

² sn The parallelism shows what Proverbs will repeatedly stress, that the wise person is the righteous person.

² tn The pronoun makes the subject emphatic and stresses the contrast: “I know—I also.”

¹ tn Heb “at the mouth of”; the metonymy stresses it is at their report.

¹ tn The Hebrew text uses הִנֵּה (hinneh) here to stress the contrast.

² tn The Hebrew sentence stresses the number. The sentence begins “600,000….”

² tn The cohortative coming after the imperative stresses purpose (it is an indirect volitive).

¹ tn Grk “every man,” but ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos) is used in a generic sense here to stress humanity rather than masculinity.

¹ sn Jesus was stressing that all stand at risk of death, if they do not repent and receive life.

¹ sn Ezekiel’s contemporary, Jeremiah, also stressed the importance of obedience to the Sabbath law (Jer 17).

² tn The Qal active participle functions verbally here. The word stresses both social and physical harm and violence.

⁶ tn Here too the form is the cohortative, stressing the resolution of wisdom to reveal herself to the one who responds.

¹ tn The Hebrew particle כֵּן (ken) is used here to stress the following affirmation (see Josh 2:4).

² tn Some would render this “teaches us by the beasts.” But Elihu is stressing the unique privilege humans have.

⁵ tn The use of נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) for the subject of the verb stresses the personal nature—me.

² tn The Hebrew text stresses this idea by use of apposition: “the Israelites entered, the entire community, the wilderness.”

² tn The verse stresses the completeness of their death: “will we be consumed by dying” (הַאִם תַּמְנוּ לִגְוֹעַ, haʾim tamnu ligvoaʿ).

¹ tn The construction again uses the infinitive absolute with the verb in the conditional clause to stress the condition.

² tn Or “you will eat.” The statement stresses their obligation—they must eat unleavened bread and avoid all leaven.