Psalms 109:10

May his children ¹  roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home! ² 

Ge 4:12-14; 2Sa 3:29; 2Ki 5:27; Job 24:8-12; Job 30:3-9; Ps 37:25; Isa 16:2

¹ tn Or “sons.”

² tn Heb “and roaming, may his children roam and beg, and seek from their ruins.” Some, following the LXX, emend the term וְדָרְשׁוּ (vÿdoreshu, “and seek”) to יְגֹרְשׁוּ (yÿgoreshu; a Pual jussive, “may they be driven away” [see Job 30:5; cf. NIV, NRSV]), but דָּרַשׁ (darash) nicely parallels שִׁאֵלוּ (shi’elu, “and beg”) in the preceding line.