¹ tn Heb “look, they gush forth with their mouth, swords [are] in their lips.”

¹ tn Heb “from the end of the heavens [is] its going forth.”

² tn Dhorme reads this “and how his stormcloud makes lightning to flash forth?”

² tn The verb is a Hiphil perfect of yasa’, “to go out, proceed, issue forth.”

¹ tn Heb “sent forth his hand”; NAB, NIV “attacked”; NLT “tried to destroy.” Cf. 9:2.

³ tn Heb “from the coming up of the dawn till the coming forth of the stars.”

² tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.

¹ tn Heb “From the mouth of the Most High does it not go forth, both evil and good?”

¹ tn Heb “the one who pushes it back and forth”; KJV “him that shaketh it”; ASV “him that wieldeth it.”

² sn Has come in splendor. The psalmist may allude ironically to Deut 33:2, where God “shone forth” from Sinai.

¹ tn Heb “But may those who love him be like the going forth of the sun in its strength.”

² tn The two imperatives form a verbal hendiadys: “pass over and return,” meaning, “go back and forth” throughout the camp.

¹ tn Or “will run back and forth”; KJV “shall run to and fro”; NIV “will go here and there”; CEV “will go everywhere.”

¹ tn Heb “when it sends forth.” Repointing the consonants of the Masoretic text would render the proposed reading of “shoots” (cf. NRSV).

¹ tn Heb “Why did I come forth from the womb to see [= so that I might see] trouble and grief and that my days might be consumed in shame?”

⁴ sn Reveal your splendor. The psalmist may allude to Deut 33:2, where God “shines forth” from Sinai and comes to superintend Moses’ blessing of the tribes.

¹ tn Heb יָצָא (yatsaʾ, “comes forth”). The perfect verb expresses characteristic action and so is translated by the present tense (see GKC 329 §111.s).

¹ sn The sufferer is looking back over all the possible chances of death, including when he was brought forth, placed on the knees or lap, and breastfed.

⁴ tn The Hebrew word order emphatically holds out Job’s person as the exception: “only upon him do not stretch forth your hand.”

² tc The MT reads נִתְּכָה (nitt^ekah, “has gushed forth”) but the LXX implies נִצְתָה (nits^etah, “has been ignited”).