Jude 1:16

These people are grumblers and ¹  fault-finders who go ²  wherever their desires lead them, ³  and they give bombastic speeches, ⁴  enchanting folks ⁵  for their own gain. ⁶ 

Le 19:15; Nu 14:36; Nu 16:11; De 1:27; Job 17:4,5; Job 32:21; Job 34:19; Ps 15:4; Ps 17:10; Ps 73:9-11; Ps 106:25; Pr 28:21; Isa 29:24; Lu 5:30; Lu 15:2; Lu 19:7; Joh 6:41,61; 1Co 10:10; Ga 5:16,24; Php 2:14; 1Th 4:5; 1Ti 6:5; 2Ti 4:3; Jas 1:14,15; Jas 2:1-9; 1Pe 1:14; 1Pe 2:11; 1Pe 4:2; 2Pe 2:1-3; 2Pe 2:10; 2Pe 2:18; 2Pe 3:3; Jude 1:15; Jude 1:18

¹ tn “And” is not in Greek, but is supplied for the sake of English style.

² tn Or “going.” Though the participle is anarthrous, so also is the subject. Thus, the participle could be either adverbial or adjectival.

³ tn Grk “(who go/going) according to their own lusts.”

⁴ tn Grk “and their mouth speaks bombastic things.”

sn They give bombastic speeches. The idiom of opening one’s mouth in the NT often implied a public oration from a teacher or one in authority. Cf. Matt 5:2; Luke 4:22; Acts 1:16; 3:18; 10:34; Eph 6:19; Rev 13:5-6.

⁵ sn Enchanting folks (Grk “awing faces”) refers to the fact that the speeches of these false teachers are powerful and seductive.

⁶ tn Or “to their own advantage.”