² tn Or “upright.”

¹ tn Heb “upright.”

¹ tn Heb “upright in heart.”

² tn Heb “and an upright one among men there is not.”

¹ tn Heb “I will give you thanks with an upright heart.”

¹ tn Heb “who is upright in the way” (so NASB; KJV and ASV are similar). Here “in the way” refers to the course of a person’s life, hence “who lives an upright life.” Cf. NAB “he who walks uprightly.”

⁴ tn The adjective is used here substantivally. Without the article the word stresses the meaning of “uprightness.” Job will use “innocent” and “upright” together in 17:8.

¹ tn Heb “Is it not written down in the Scroll of the Upright One?” Many modern translations render this as “the Book of Jashar.” Yashar (יָשָׁר) means “Upright One.”

¹ tn BDAG 722 s.v. ὀρθός 1.a has “stand upright on your feet.”

² tc The present translation reads מֵישָׁרִים (mesharim, “alliances”) for the MT וִישָׁרִים (viysharim, “uprightness”).

² tn Heb “in a land of uprightness they act unjustly”; NRSV “they deal perversely.”

⁴ tn Heb “[is] against uprightness.” The expression may be rendered “contrary to what is right.”

² tn Heb “the upright in way,” i.e., those who lead godly lives.

³ tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”

³ tn The word רָצוֹן (ratson) means “favor; acceptance; pleasing.” It usually means what is pleasing or acceptable to God. In this passage it either means that the upright try to make amends, or that the upright find favor for doing so.

⁸ tn The word יָשָׁר (yashar, “upright”) is complementary to “blameless.” The idea is “upright, just,” and applies to his relationships with others (see Pss 25:21; 37:37).

¹ tn Heb “and upright men will judge them (with) the judgment of adulteresses and the judgment of those who shed blood.”

³ tn The “upright” is an independent nominative absolute; the pronoun becomes the formal (emphatic) subject of the verb.

¹ tn Heb “so that [they] proclaim that upright [is] the Lord, my rocky summit, and there is no injustice in him.”

² tn Heb “according to what is good and according to what is upright in your eyes to do us, do.”