² tn Or “trials.”

³ tn Or “stand trial.”

² tn Or “stand trial.”

¹ tn Grk “tested me by trial.”

² tn Grk “my trials on your behalf.”

² tn Or “any trials”; traditionally, “any affliction.”

¹ tn Grk “your trial in my flesh you did not despise or reject.”

³ tn Heb “they sat” or “they took their seats.” However, the context is one of judicial trial.

² tn Grk “from trial,” or possibly “from temptation” (though this second meaning for πειρασμός (peirasmos) does not fit the context in which Noah and Lot are seen as in the midst of trials, not temptation).

¹ tn Grk “was going to bring him out,” but the upcoming trial is implied. See Acts 12:4.

³ tn Grk “that the testing of your faith…may be found unto praise,” showing the result of the trials mentioned in v. 6.

¹ tn Or “our trials”; traditionally, “our affliction.” The term θλῖψις (thlipsis) refers to trouble (including persecution) that involves direct suffering (L&N 22.2).

¹ tn BDAG 568 s.v. κρίνω 5.a.α has “κρίνεσθαι ἐπί τινι be on trial because of a thing Ac 26:6.”

¹ sn Having addressed the defendants, God now speaks to those who are observing the trial, referring to the gods in the third person.

³ sn Job is saying that whether it is a trial of strength or an appeal to justice, he is unable to go against God.

⁴ tn Grk “to bring him out to the people,” but in this context a public trial (with certain condemnation as the result) is doubtless what Herod planned. L&N 15.176 translates this phrase “planning to bring him up for a public trial after the Passover.”

⁵ sn Governor Felix asked what province he was from to determine whether he had legal jurisdiction over Paul. He could have sent him to his home province for trial, but decided to hear the case himself.

¹ sn But the person who endures to the end will be saved. Jesus was not claiming here that salvation is by works. He was simply arguing that genuine faith evidences itself in persistence through even the worst of trials.

¹ sn The author is not asserting that the quality of the readers’ faith is in doubt and will be proven by future trials. He declares their faith to be a present reality in v. 5 and 9, so in context v. 8 affirms that their faith is indeed genuine.

¹ tn This could be a reference to the Jewish people (so CEV) or to the Jewish leaders (so NLT). The statement in v. 4 that Herod intended to bring Peter “out to the people” (i.e., for a public trial) may suggest the former is somewhat more likely.