Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Pro 12:20) | 2 sn The contrast here is between “evil” (= pain and calamity) and “peace” (= social wholeness and well-being); see, e.g., Pss 34:14; 37:37. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 11:6) | 1 sn The contrast is between being rescued or delivered (נָצַל, natsal) and being captured (לָכַד, lakhad). Righteousness is freeing; [evil] desires are enslaving. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 5:8) | 2 sn There is a contrast made between “keep far away” (הַרְחֵק, harkheq) and “do not draw near” (וְאַל־תִּקְרַב, veʾal tiqrav). |
| (0.30) | (Psa 68:3) | 1 tn By placing the subject first the psalmist highlights the contrast between God’s ecstatic people and his defeated enemies (vv. 1-2). |
| (0.30) | (Psa 52:8) | 1 tn The disjunctive construction (vav [ו] + subject) highlights the contrast between the evildoer’s destiny (vv. 5-7) and that of the godly psalmist’s security. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 20:7) | 2 tn The grammatical construction (conjunction + pronominal subject) highlights the contrast between God’s faithful people and the others mentioned in the previous line. |
| (0.30) | (Job 17:10) | 3 tn Instead of the exact correspondence between coordinate verbs, other combinations occur—here we have a jussive and an imperative (see GKC 386 §120.e). |
| (0.30) | (Job 11:2) | 1 tn There is no article or demonstrative with the word; it has been added here simply to make a smoother connection between the chapters. |
| (0.30) | (Job 9:23) | 1 sn The point of these verses is to show—rather boldly—that God does not distinguish between the innocent and the guilty. |
| (0.30) | (Job 5:10) | 1 tn Heb “who gives.” The participle continues the doxology here. But the article is necessary because of the distance between this verse and the reference to God. |
| (0.30) | (Rut 1:14) | 3 tn The clause is disjunctive. The word order is conjunction + subject + verb, highlighting the contrast between the actions of Orpah and Ruth. |
| (0.30) | (Jos 11:16) | 3 sn The foothills (שְׁפֵלָה, “shephelah”) refer to the transition region between the Judean hill country and the Mediterranean coastal plain. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 2:13) | 1 sn Wadi Zered. Now known as Wadi el-Ḥesa, this valley marked the boundary between Moab to the north and Edom to the south. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 1:1) | 6 sn Paran is the well-known desert area between Mount Sinai and Kadesh Barnea (cf. Num 10:12; 12:16). |
| (0.30) | (Num 11:21) | 3 tn The word order places the object first here: “Meat I will give them.” This adds to the contrast between the number and the statement of the Lord. |
| (0.30) | (Lev 25:39) | 1 tn Heb “you shall not serve against him service of a slave.” A distinction is being made here between the status of slave and indentured servant. |
| (0.30) | (Lev 13:3) | 2 tn There is no “if” expressed, but the contrast between the priestly finding in this verse and the next verse clearly implies it. |
| (0.30) | (Lev 7:16) | 1 tn For the distinction between votive and freewill offerings see the note on Lev 22:23 and the literature cited there. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 42:4) | 1 tn Heb “But Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, Jacob did not send with his brothers.” The disjunctive clause highlights the contrast between Benjamin and the other ten. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 19:23) | 1 sn The sun had just risen. There was very little time for Lot to escape between dawn (v. 15) and sunrise (here). |
