Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Jdg 5:16) | 2 tn Or “whistling.” |
| (0.80) | (Zep 2:15) | 4 tn Heb “hisses”; or “whistles.” |
| (0.35) | (1Ki 9:8) | 2 tn Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule. |
| (0.30) | (Zep 2:15) | 5 sn Hissing (or whistling) and shaking the fist were apparently ways of taunting a defeated foe or an object of derision in the culture of the time. |
| (0.15) | (Job 27:23) | 1 tn If the same subject is to be carried through here, it is the wind. That would make this a bold personification, perhaps suggesting the force of the wind. Others argue that it is unlikely that the wind claps its hands. They suggest taking the verb with an indefinite subject: “he claps” means “one claps. The idea is that of people rejoicing when the wicked are gone. But the parallelism is against this unless the second line is changed as well. R. Gordis (Job, 296) has “men will clap their hands…men will whistle upon him.” |
