Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Psa 16:9) | 2 tn Heb “yes, my flesh dwells securely.” The psalmist’s “flesh” stands by metonymy for his body and, by extension, his physical life. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 7:5) | 2 tn Heb “my life.” The pronominal suffix attached to נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) is equivalent to a personal pronoun. See Ps 6:3. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 7:2) | 2 tn Heb “my life.” The pronominal suffix attached to נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) is equivalent to a personal pronoun. See Ps 6:3. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 6:4) | 1 tn Heb “my being,” or “my life.” The suffixed form of נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “being”) is often equivalent to a pronoun in poetic texts. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 6:1) | 3 sn The implication is that the psalmist has sinned, causing God to discipline him by bringing a life-threatening illness upon him (see vv. 2-7). |
| (0.30) | (Job 38:12) | 1 tn The Hebrew idiom is “have you from your days?” It means “never in your life” (see 1 Sam 25:28; 1 Kgs 1:6). |
| (0.30) | (Job 31:5) | 3 sn The verbs “walk” and “hasten” (referring in the verse to the foot) are used metaphorically for the manner of life Job lived. |
| (0.30) | (Job 29:3) | 3 sn Lamp and light are symbols of God’s blessings of life and all the prosperous and good things it includes. |
| (0.30) | (Job 24:22) | 2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity. See the note on the word “life” at the end of the line. |
| (0.30) | (Job 21:16) | 2 sn Even though their life seems so good in contrast to his own plight, Job cannot and will not embrace their principles—“far be from me their counsel.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 14:1) | 2 tn The second description is simply “[is] short of days.” The meaning here is that his life is short (“days” being put as the understatement for “years”). |
| (0.30) | (Job 12:8) | 2 tn A. B. Davidson (Job, 90) offers a solution by taking “earth” to mean all the lower forms of life that teem in the earth (a metonymy of subject). |
| (0.30) | (Job 9:21) | 2 tn The meaning of the expression “I do not know myself” seems to be, “I do not care.” NIV translates it, “I have no concern for my life.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 7:15) | 5 tn This is one of the few words recognizable in the LXX: “You will separate life from my spirit, and yet keep my bones from death.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 7:3) | 1 tn “Thus” indicates a summary of vv. 1 and 2: like the soldier, the mercenary, and the slave, Job has labored through life and looks forward to death. |
| (0.30) | (Job 4:8) | 2 sn The figure is an implied metaphor. Plowing suggests the idea of deliberately preparing (or cultivating) life for evil. This describes those who are fundamentally wicked. |
| (0.30) | (Job 2:6) | 1 tn The particle הִנּוֹ (hinno) is literally, “here he is!” God presents Job to Satan, with the restriction on preserving Job’s life. |
| (0.30) | (Est 7:7) | 1 sn There is great irony here in that the man who set out to destroy all the Jews now finds himself begging for his own life from a Jew. |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 8:5) | 3 tn Heb “and look, the woman whose son he had brought back to life was crying out to the king for her house and her field.” |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 23:20) | 1 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading חַיִל (khayil, “valor”) rather than the Kethib of the MT, חַי (khay, “life”). |
