⁶ tn Grk “and again a little while, and you.”

² tn Grk “Yet a little while the light is with you.”

¹ tn Grk “Yet a little I am with you.”

¹ tn Heb “but if a little remains in the years.”

¹ sn The point of the statement faithful in a very little is that character is shown in how little things are treated.

² tn Grk “Though now, for a little while if necessary, you may have to suffer.”

³ tn Grk “no little disturbance” (an idiom; see BDAG 991 s.v. τάραχος 2).

² tn Heb “her little children” or “her infants”; ASV, NRSV “young children.”

⁵ tn Heb “like little.” This expression refers to what has little value: “little worth” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV; cf. BDB 590 s.v. מְעַט 2.d). The point of the metaphor is clarified by the parallelism: Silver is valuable; the heart of the wicked is worth little. Tg. Prov 10:20 says it was full of dross, a contrast with choice silver.

¹ tn Heb “and yet, a little, there will be no wicked [one].”

¹ tn The LXX interprets a little more precisely: “his lamp shall be put out with him.”

¹ tn Heb “Like a little your servant will cross the Jordan with the king.”

¹ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.” So also a little later in this verse.

² tn Heb “Look, this town is near to flee to there. And it is little.”

¹ sn Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. Little is known about these descendants of Aram.

¹ sn The writer might in this verse be imitating the words of the sluggard who just wants to take “a little nap.” The use is ironic, for by indulging in this little rest the lazy one comes to ruin.

⁸ tn Heb “the little man.” The term אִישׁוֹן (ʾishon) means literally “little man,” perhaps because when one looks into another’s eyes he sees himself reflected there in miniature. See A. Harman, NIDOTTE 1:391.

³ tn L&N 15.12, “βραχὺ δὲ διαστήσαντες ‘when they had gone a little farther’ Ac 27:28.”

¹ tn Or “have been partially a sanctuary”; others take this as temporal (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV “a little while”).

¹ tn The Hebrew text phrases this as a rhetorical question, “Is it not yet a little, a short [time]?”