¹ tn Heb “evil.” The context makes clear that this is a matter of ritual impurity, not moral impurity, so it is “evil” in the sense that it disbars one from certain religious activity.

² tn The verb רָעַע (raʿaʿ) means “to act or do evil.” Evil here is in the sense of causing pain or trouble. So the causative stem in our passage means “to treat wickedly.”

⁶ sn The author of Genesis goes out of his way to emphasize the depth of human evil at this time. Note the expressions “every inclination,” “only evil,” and “all the time.”

⁴ tn BDAG 837 s.v. πνευματικός 3 suggests “the spirit-forces of evil” in Ephesians 6:12.

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

² tn Heb “to speak good concerning them,” which goes back to the concept of “good” being paid back with evil.

² tn The second line uses the image of winnowing (cf. NIV, NRSV) to state that the king’s judgment removes evil from the realm. The verb form is מְזָרֶה (m^ezareh), the Piel participle. It has been translated “to sift; to winnow; to scatter” and “to separate”—i.e., separate out evil from the land. The text is saying that a just government roots out evil (cf. NAB “dispels all evil”), but few governments have been consistently just.

³ tn The verb is the imperfect tense, third feminine singular, referring to “evil,” the object of the participle.

³ tn The word דִבָּה (dibbah) means “whispering; defamation; evil report” (BDB 179 s.v.). Cf. NAB “accusations”; TEV “gossip.”

³ sn Heb “their sleep is robbed/seized”; these expressions are metonymical for their restlessness in plotting evil.

⁴ sn Only the godly are allowed to dwell with the Lord. Evil people are excluded. See Ps 15.

² tn Heb “because of those who watch me [with evil intent].” See also Pss 27:11; 56:2.

⁴ tn The word is רָע (raʿ, “evil”) in the sense of anything that harms, interrupts, or destroys life.

² sn The wicked person holds on to evil as long as he can, savoring the taste or the pleasure of it.

² sn Man commits evil with the same ease and facility as he drinks in water—freely and in large quantities.

² tn Heb “they sold themselves to doing what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

¹ tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”

¹ tn Heb “for we have added to all our sins an evil [thing] by asking for ourselves a king.”

³ tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”

¹ tn Or “an evil report,” i.e., one that was a defamation of the grace of God.