Discovery Box| (0.43) | (Pro 28:11) | 2 sn The idiom “in his own eyes” means “in his own opinion,” that is, his self conceit. The rich person thinks he is wise because he is rich, that he has made all the right choices. |
| (0.43) | (Psa 77:1) | 1 sn Psalm 77. The psalmist recalls how he suffered through a time of doubt, but tells how he found encouragement and hope as he recalled the way in which God delivered Israel at the Red Sea. |
| (0.43) | (Psa 38:1) | 1 sn Psalm 38. The author asks the Lord to deliver him from his enemies. He confesses his sin and recognizes that the crisis he faces is the result of divine discipline. Yet he begs the Lord not to reject him. |
| (0.43) | (Psa 37:18) | 1 tn Heb “the Lord knows the days of the innocent ones.” He “knows” their days in the sense that he is intimately aware of and involved in their daily struggles. He meets their needs and sustains them. |
| (0.43) | (Job 32:15) | 1 sn Elihu now will give another reason why he will speak—the arguments of these friends failed miserably. But before he gets to his argument, he will first qualify his authority. |
| (0.43) | (Job 29:1) | 2 tn The verse uses a verbal hendiadys: “and he added (וַיֹּסֶף, vayyosef)…to raise (שְׂאֵת, seʾet) his speech.” The expression means that he continued, or he spoke again. |
| (0.43) | (Job 7:2) | 1 tn This term עֶבֶד (ʿeved) is the servant or the slave. He is compelled to work through the day in the heat, but he longs for evening when he can rest from the slavery. |
| (0.43) | (Job 4:6) | 3 sn Eliphaz is not being sarcastic to Job. He knows that Job is a God-fearing man who lives out his faith in life. But he also knows that Job should apply to himself the same things he tells others. |
| (0.43) | (Jdg 12:9) | 1 tn Heb “30 daughters he sent off outside.” Another option is to translate, “He arranged for his 30 daughters….” It is not clear if he had more than the “30 daughters” mentioned in the text. |
| (0.43) | (Jos 10:39) | 3 tn Heb “as he did to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, and as he did to Libnah and its king.” The clauses have been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.43) | (Exo 10:16) | 2 tn The Piel preterite וַיְמַהֵר (vayemaher) could be translated “and he hastened,” but here it is joined with the following infinitive construct to form the hendiadys. “He hurried to summon” means “He summoned quickly.” |
| (0.43) | (Gen 39:2) | 1 tn Heb “and he was a prosperous man.” This does not mean that Joseph became wealthy, but that he was successful in what he was doing, or making progress in his situation (see 24:21). |
| (0.43) | (Luk 8:18) | 3 sn The phrase what he thinks he has is important because it is not what a person thinks he has that is important but whether he actually has something or not. Jesus describes the person who does not heed his word as having nothing. The person who has nothing loses even that which he thought was something but was not. In other words, he has absolutely nothing at all. Jesus’ teaching must be taken seriously. |
| (0.42) | (2Jo 1:12) | 3 sn Presumably the author means he would rather say the additional things he wants to say to the recipients in person rather than by letter (with paper and ink). |
| (0.42) | (2Co 11:28) | 1 sn Apart from other things. Paul refers here either (1) to the external sufferings just mentioned, or (2) he refers to other things he has left unmentioned. |
| (0.42) | (Act 18:20) | 1 sn He would not consent. Paul probably refused because he wanted to reach Jerusalem for the festival season before the seas became impassable during the winter. |
| (0.42) | (Act 8:30) | 5 tn Grk “he said,” but since what follows is a question, it is better English style to translate the introduction to the question “he asked him.” |
| (0.42) | (Act 1:25) | 4 sn To go to his own place. This may well be a euphemism for Judas’ judged fate. He separated himself from them, and thus separated he would remain. |
| (0.42) | (Joh 21:19) | 4 tn Grk “After he said this, he said to him”; the referents (first Jesus, second Peter) have been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.42) | (Luk 24:28) | 1 sn He acted as though he wanted to go farther. This is written in a way that gives the impression Jesus knew they would ask him to stay. |
