² tn Heb “is far away.”

² tn Or “infinitely beyond,” “far more abundantly than.”

³ tn Heb “his friends are far from him.”

¹ tn Heb “far from the wicked [is] deliverance.”

¹ tn Heb “they are far from me.”

¹ tn Heb “they left the city, they were not far,” meaning “they had not gone very far.”

³ tn Heb “as far as the place of Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh.”

¹ tn The imperative הַרְחַק (harkhaq, “remove”; GKC 98 §29.q), from רָחַק (rakhaq, “far, be far”) means “take away [far away]; to remove.”

⁵ tn Or “I pursued them even as far as foreign cities.”

³ tn Heb “For a comforter is far from me.”

¹ tn Or “islands” (NASB, NIV); NLT “in far-off lands.”

² tn Heb “who are far from righteousness [or perhaps, “deliverance”].”

³ tn Heb “deviousness of lips put far from you.”

³ tn Heb “may it be far removed from me.”

² tn Heb “they stood in one pile very far away.”

⁴ tc The MT has an imperative form (“go far!”), but it may be read with different vowels as a perfect verb (“they have gone far”).

² sn The following line defines the phrase far from you in a spiritual sense. Those “far” from God are those who are unfaithful and disloyal to him.

¹ tn Grk “mountain,” but this might give the English reader the impression of a far higher summit.

¹ tn Grk “mountain,” but this might give the English reader the impression of a far higher summit.

⁴ tn Heb “they will not.” But the referent is far enough removed that it might be ambiguous.