³ tn Heb “[as for] wealth, when it bears fruit, do not set [your] heart [on it].”

¹ tn Heb “fruit.” The next line makes it clear that offspring is in view.

² tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV); NRSV “of your body.”

¹ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”

¹ tn Heb “will bless the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

² tn Heb “who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb.”

³ tn Heb “and let them swarm in the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

⁶ sn This is appropriate imagery and highly ironic. After defeating their enemies, the Assyrian kings often encouraged their troops to consume the fruit of the conquered city’s fruit trees.

¹ tn Heb “fruit of the lips.” The term “fruit” is the implied comparison, meaning what is produced; and “lips” is the metonymy of cause, referring to speech. Proper speech will result in good things.

¹ tn Heb “yielding fruit poisonous and wormwood.” The Hebrew noun לַעֲנָה (laʿanah) literally means “wormwood” (so KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB), but is used figuratively for anything extremely bitter, thus here “fruit poisonous and bitter.”

³ tn The word “fruit” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied as the direct object of the verb “eat.” Presumably the only part of the tree the man would eat would be its fruit (cf. 3:2).

⁵ tn On this term BDAG 1018 s.v. τρυγάω states: “‘gather in’ ripe fruit, esp. harvest (grapes) w. acc. of the fruit (POslo. 21, 13 [71 ad]; Jos., Ant. 4, 227) Lk 6:44; Rv 14:18 (in imagery, as in the foll. places)…W. acc. of that which bears the fruit gather the fruit of the vine…or the vineyard (s. ἄμπελος a) Rv 14:19.”

² tn Grk “in.” The idea is that the fruit of the light is “expressed in” or “consists of.”

² tn Grk “rotten.” The word σαπρός, modifying both “fruit” and “tree,” can also mean “diseased” (L&N 65.28).

¹ tn Grk “rotten.” The word σαπρός, modifying both “tree” and “fruit,” can also mean “diseased” (L&N 65.28).

³ tn Heb “giving to each according to his way [= behavior/conduct] and according to the fruit of his deeds.”

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

² tn On the meaning of זַלְזַל (zalzal, “shoot [of the vine] without fruit buds”) see HALOT 272 s.v. *זַלְזַל.

³ tn Heb “and the fruit of the land will become pride and beauty for the remnant of Israel.”

² tn Heb “it”; the referent (“the fruit of his labor”) has been specified in the translation for clarity.