³ tn Heb “and David said to the young men.”

² tn Heb “young man.” Cf. NAB, NIV “overseer”; NLT “foreman.”

¹ tn Heb “the young man became like one of his sons.”

² tn Heb “Samson visited his wife with a young goat.”

¹ tn Heb “Take for me this young woman for a wife.”

² tn Heb “except only what the young men have eaten.”

⁵ tn Heb “by not going after the young men” (NASB similar); TEV “You might have gone looking for a young man.”

³ tn Heb “were not praised,” that is, in wedding songs. The young men died in masses, leaving no husbands for the young women.

³ tn Grk “on him”; the referent (the young man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

³ sn The epithet Daughter Zion pictures the city of Jerusalem as a young lady.

¹ tn Heb “virgins.” The term “virgin” probably functions as a metonymy of association for single young women.

¹ sn Jerualem is personified as a young maiden helpless before enemy attackers.

² sn Jerusalem is personified as a young maiden who is helpless in the hands of her enemies.

¹ tn Heb “and bows cut to bits young men.” “Bows” stands by metonymy for arrows.

¹ tn This Hebrew word occurs only here. The word פִּרְחַח (pirkhakh, “young rabble”) is a quadriliteral, from פָּרַח (parakh, “to bud”) The derivative אֶפְרֹחַ (ʾefroakh) in the Bible refers to a young bird. In Arabic farhun means both “young bird” and “base man.” Perhaps “young rabble” is the best meaning here (see R. Gordis, Job, 333).

² tc The LXX does not include the words “more than all the other young women.”

¹ tn Heb “young women, virgins, good of form.” The same phrase also occurs in v. 3.

² tn Heb “like great, like small” (i.e., old and young alike).

³ tn Heb “and look, a young lion of the lions was roaring to meet him.”