² tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”

¹ tn Heb “workers of wickedness.”

¹ tn Heb “workers of wickedness.”

¹ tn Heb “turns from its wickedness.”

³ tn Heb “the workers of wickedness.”

² tn Traditionally, “with the reward of his wickedness.”

¹ tn Heb “from the workers of wickedness.”

³ tn Heb “all the workers of wickedness.”

¹ tn Heb “empty men, sons of wickedness.”

³ tn Heb “the wickedness of your heart.”

¹ tn Heb “the men, sons of wickedness.”

² tn Heb “and burn away wickedness from Israel.”

³ tn Heb “according to his wickedness, by number.”

² tn Heb “you strike the head from the house of wickedness.”

³ tn Heb “because of the wickedness of their deeds.”

² tn Heb “not a God [who] delights [in] wickedness [are] you.”

⁴ tn Heb “men of wickedness”; the genitive is attributive (= “wicked men”).

³ sn Wise lips detest wickedness; wisdom hates speaking wicked things. In fact, speaking truth results in part from detesting wickedness.

⁵ tn Or “the evil of folly” The genitive construct phrase רֶשַׁע כֶּסֶל (reshaʿ kesel) may be taken as a genitive of attribution (“the wickedness of folly”) or as a genitive of attribute (“the folly of wickedness”). The English versions treat it in various ways: “wickedness of folly” (KJV); “wrong of folly” (YLT); “evil of folly” (NASB); “stupidity of wickedness” (NIV); “wickedness, stupidity” (NJPS); “wickedness is folly [or foolish]” (ASV, NAB, NRSV, MLB, Moffatt), and “it is folly to be wicked” (NEB).

² tn Heb “high places of wickedness” (בָּמוֹת אָוֶן, bamot ʾaven); so NIV. The noun אָוֶן (“wickedness”) is an attributive genitive: “wicked high places.”