¹ tn Grk “the ministry of condemnation”; translated as an objective genitive, “the ministry that produced condemnation.”

² tn Grk “the ministry of righteousness”; translated as an objective genitive, “the ministry that produces righteousness.”

¹ sn The principle of the passage is that one produces what one is.

² tn Heb “gives [or yields, or produces]”; NIV “will prove to be.”

¹ tn Heb “a tongue.” The term “tongue” is a metonymy of cause for what is produced: speech.

¹ tn Heb “from bloodshed.” “Bloodshed” here stands by metonymy for the guilt which it produces.

³ tn Heb “your seed”; this must be interpreted figuratively for what the seed produces.

² tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.

⁴ tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.

¹ tn That is, the produce of the land (fem.; cf. v. 7 above).

¹ tn Heb “his wine,” used here by metonymy for the drunken stupor it produced.

² tn Heb “word of lips.” This construct phrase features a genitive of source (“a word from the lips”) or a subjective genitive (“speaking a word”). Talk without work (which produces nothing) is contrasted with labor that produces something.

² tn The noun תְּבוּאָה (t^evuʾah) means “harvest, yield of crops, produce” and by extension “profit” (HALOT 1679, s.v.). The agricultural imagery is an implied metaphor (hypocatastasis) for the gains that wisdom produces in one’s life.

¹ tn The word בּוּל (bul) probably refers to food. Many take it as an abbreviated form of יְבוּל (y^evul, “produce of the field”). The vegetation that is produced on the low hills is what is meant.

² sn The point is that like the tree the wicked man shows signs of life but produces nothing valuable. The olive tree will have blossoms in the years that it produces no olives, and so eventually drops the blossoms.

³ sn The word picture a land rich in milk and honey depicts the land as containing many grazing areas (which would produce milk) and flowering plants (which would support the bees that produced honey).

¹ tn Heb “all the labor of hands” (similar KJV, NASB, NIV); cf. NAB “all that is produced by hand.”

¹ tn Heb “a heavy rain of waters passes by.” Perhaps the flash floods produced by the downpour are in view here.

¹ sn Invading armies lived off the land, using up all the produce and destroying everything they could not consume.

¹ tn Heb “The remnant of the house of Judah that is left will add roots below and produce fruit above.”