³ tn Heb “disclose, uncover.”

¹ tn Heb “uncovered to you.”

¹ tn Heb “uncovers my ear.”

¹ tn Heb “uncover your ear.”

³ tn Heb “he uncovers their ear.”

² tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”

³ tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”

¹ tn Heb “uncovered the ear of.”

¹ tn Heb “uncovered” (so ASV, NAB).

³ tn Heb “Kir uncovers” (so NAB, NIV).

¹ tn Heb “have uncovered the ear of.”

² tn Heb “I will uncover your skirts over your face.”

¹ tn The idiom once again is “he uncovers their ear.”

¹ tn The Hebrew verb גָּלָה (galah) in the Hitpael verbal stem (וַיִּתְגַּל, vayyitgal) means “to uncover oneself” or “to be uncovered.” Noah became overheated because of the wine and uncovered himself in the tent.

² tn The participle מְגַלֶּה (m^egalleh) means “uncovering” or “revealing” secrets.

³ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “from me you uncover.” The translation assumes an emendation of the Piel form גִּלִּית (gillit, “you uncover”), which has no object expressed here, to the Qal גָּלִית (galit, “you depart”).

² tn The Hitpael infinitive construct בְּהִתְגַּלּוֹת (b^ehitgallot) functions nominally as the object of the preposition. The term means “reveal, uncover, betray.” So the fool takes pleasure “in uncovering” his heart.

¹ tn Heb “uncover.” The verb form גַּל (gal) is an apocopated Piel imperative from גָּלָה (galah, see GKC 214 §75.cc).

³ tn Heb “he uncovers his father’s skirt” (NASB similar). See note at Deut 22:30.

² tn Heb “The nakedness of your father and [i.e., even] the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover.”