² tn Heb “God forgets, he hides his face, he never sees.”

¹ tn Heb “hurried and put off [their hiding place].”

¹ tn Heb “I will hide my face from them.”

² tn Heb “and (must not) hide yourself from them.”

² tn Heb “the remnant and those who hide themselves.”

¹ tn Heb “and I struck him, hiding, and I was angry.” פָּנִים (panim, “face”) is the implied object of “hiding.”

² sn I must hide from your presence. The motif of hiding from the Lord as a result of sin also appears in Gen 3:8-10.

¹ tn Heb “and he was with them in the house of God hiding.”

¹ tn Heb “and he was with her [in] the house of the Lord hiding.”

³ tn Heb “belt of skin” (i.e., one made from animal hide).

² tn Heb “you hide them in the hiding place of your face from the attacks of man.” The imperfect verbal forms in this verse draw attention to God’s typical treatment of the faithful.

¹ tn The construction of this colon uses the Niphal infinitive construct from סָתַר (satar, “to be hidden; to hide”). The resumptive adverb makes this a relative clause in its usage: “where the evildoers can hide themselves.”

¹ tn Heb “Why did you hide in order to flee?” The verb “hide” and the infinitive “to flee” form a hendiadys, the infinitive becoming the main verb and the other the adverb: “flee secretly.”

¹ tn Heb “darkness,” which may indicate a place of hiding where a fugitive would seek shelter and protection.

³ tn The passive participle of the Hebrew verb צָפַן (tsafan, “to hide”) is used here in the sense of “treasured; cherished.”

¹ sn In this context Hide your face from my sins means “Do not hold me accountable for my sins.”

¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men hiding in ambush) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “you hide for times in trouble.” The interrogative “why” is understood by ellipsis; note the preceding line. The Hiphil verbal form “hide” has no expressed object. Some supply “your eyes” by ellipsis (see BDB 761 s.v. I עָלַם Hiph and HALOT 835 s.v. I עלם hif) or emend the form to a Niphal (“you hide yourself,” see BHS, note c; cf. NEB, NIV, NRSV).

² tn Heb “like a hiding of the face from him,” i.e., “like one before whom the face is hidden” (see BDB 712 s.v. מַסְתֵּר).

³ sn Hypocritical words may hide a wicked heart. The proverb makes an observation: One who in reality despises other people will often disguise that with what he says.