² tn Heb “disgusting things.”

² tn Or “appalled” (NAB, NIV, NRSV), or “disgusted.”

² tn Heb “lest my soul [= I] becomes disgusted with you.”

¹ tn Heb “an object of disgust [is he who] chooses you.”

² tn Heb “ones who eat the flesh of the pig and the disgusting thing and the mouse.”

⁶ tn Heb “their being [or “soul”] takes delight in their disgusting [things].”

¹ sn Laugh in disgust. See Pss 2:4; 37:13.

¹ tn Heb “that they were a stench [i.e., disgusting] with David.”

¹ tn Heb “that they were a stench [i.e., disgusting] with David.”

³ tn Heb “Ask me.” The rhetorical command sarcastically expresses the Lord’s disgust with those who question his ways.

³ tn Heb “and he served the disgusting idols which his father served and he bowed down to them.”

² tn Heb “He acted very abominably by walking after the disgusting idols, according to all which the Amorites had done.”

¹ tn Heb “loathe my life.” The Hebrew verb translated “loathe” refers to strong disgust (see Lev 20:23).

² sn The sentence is rhetorically loaded. It begins with three dangling objects of the verb, all describing their adulterous relationship with the false gods under different figures that are resumed later under the words “your disgusting acts.” The Hebrew sentence reads, “Your adulteries, your neighings, your shameful prostitution, upon the hills in the fields I have seen your disgusting acts.” This sentence drips with explosive disgust at their adulterous betrayal.

⁴ tn Heb “Do you command me about…?” The rhetorical question sarcastically expresses the Lord’s disgust with those who question his ways.

¹ sn Eating and drinking with a selfish miser would be irritating and disgusting. The line is hyperbolic; the whole experience turns the stomach.

¹ tn The Hebrew text adds “in her heart.” Cf. CEV “she was disgusted (+ with him TEV)”; NLT “was filled with contempt for him”; NCV “she hated him.”

³ sn That the Egyptians found eating with foreigners disgusting is well-attested in extra-biblical literature by writers like Herodotus, Diodorus, and Strabo.

² sn The point is clear: Fools repeat their disgusting mistakes, or to put it another way, whenever we repeat our disgusting mistakes we are fools. The proverb is affirming that no matter how many times a fool is warned, he never learns.

³ tn Heb “your disgusting acts.” This word is almost always used of idolatry or of the idols themselves. See BDB 1055 s.v. שִׁקֻּוּץ and Deut 29:17 and Jer 4:1; 7:30.