² tn Or “by gaining insight.”

² tn Heb “and not unjust gain.”

⁵ tn Or “and I gained my sight.”

² tn Heb “for his gain from his end.”

⁴ tn Or “the man who had gained his sight.”

¹ tn Or “tries to preserve”; Grk “seeks to gain.”

¹ tn Heb “What [is the] profit”; NIV “What did we gain.”

³ tn Heb “those who unjustly gain unjust gain.” The participle בֹּצֵעַ (botseaʿ, “those who unjustly gain”) is followed by the cognate accusative of the same root בָּצַע (batsaʿ, “unjust gain”) to underscore the idea that they gained their wealth through heinous criminal activity.

² tn Heb “and they turned aside after unjust gain and took bribes and perverted justice.”

³ tn Heb “and from that which belonged to our father he has gained all this wealth.”

³ sn The verb followed by the cognate noun usually means seeking gain in an unjust way (1 Sam 8:3), or for selfish purposes (Gen 37:26), or gaining by violence. The word may have the sense of covetousness.

⁵ tn Heb “haters of bribes.” Here is another objective genitive, one that refers to unjust gain. To hate unjust gain is to reject and refuse it. Their decisions will not be swayed by greed.

⁵ tn Heb “In all my gains/labors, no one can find in me any guilt that is sin.”

⁴ tn Heb “the work of their hands” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “their hard-won gains.”

² tn Or perhaps, “merchandise” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “the gain of Ethiopia”; CEV “the treasures of Ethiopia.”

¹ tn Heb “treasures of wickedness” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “Ill-gotten gains”; TEV “Wealth that you get by dishonesty.”

⁴ tc Most commentators wish to lengthen the verse and make it more parallel, but nothing is gained by doing this.

² sn Gained what was promised. They saw some of God’s promises fulfilled, even though the central promise remained unfulfilled until Christ came (cf. vv. 39-40).

⁴ sn Casting lots seems to be a way of deciding who would gain control over material possessions and enslaved peoples following a military victory.

² tn The Hebrew text merely says “it.” But the antecedent might be ambiguous in English, so the reference to wealth gained by unjust means is here reiterated for clarity.