² tn Or “we beg you.”

⁴ tn Grk “I beg you.”

⁴ tn Or “begging,” “inviting.”

¹ tn Or “as though God were begging.”

² tn Grk “I beg you,” “I ask you.”

⁴ tn Grk “I do not have strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg.”

¹ tn One could also translate the imperfect tense here with a repetitive force like “begged him repeatedly.”

³ sn J. H. Greenstone suggests that this means that they are begging for favors (Proverbs, 154).

⁴ sn To beg would represent a real lowering of status for the manager, because many of those whom he had formerly collected debts from, he would now be forced to beg from.

² tn Grk “a voice…from which those who heard begged that a word not be added to them.”

⁹ tn Grk “and begged him, saying.” The participle λέγων (legōn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

¹ tn Grk “begged him, saying.” The participle λέγων (legōn) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.

³ tn The basic meaning of the Qal verb שָׁאַל (shaʾal) is “to ask;” by extension it sometimes means “to wish for; to desire; to borrow” and perhaps “to beg.” The Piel can mean “to beg” and does not require emending the consonantal text. Because he did not plant, or did not do it at the right time, he is reduced to begging and will have nothing (cf. KJV, ASV; NASB “he begs during the harvest”).

³ tn Grk “Then I beg you, father, that you send him”; the referent (Lazarus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² sn Jesus telling his disciples to stay there in one house contrasts with the practice of religious philosophers in the ancient world who went from house to house begging.

¹ sn Jesus telling his disciples to stay there in one house contrasts with the practice of religious philosophers in the ancient world who went from house to house begging.

¹ tn Grk “falling therefore the slave bowed down to the ground.” The redundancy of this expression signals the desperation of the slave in begging for mercy.

¹ sn Psalm 39. The psalmist laments his frailty and mortality as he begs the Lord to take pity on him and remove his disciplinary hand.

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.

¹ sn Psalm 88. The psalmist cries out in pain to the Lord, begging him for relief from his intense and constant suffering. The psalmist regards God as the ultimate cause of his distress, but nevertheless clings to God in hope.