Psalms 139:11

If I were to say, “Certainly the darkness will cover me, ¹  and the light will turn to night all around me,” ² 

Job 12:22; Job 22:12-14; Ps 10:11-13; Ps 94:7; Isa 29:15; Jer 23:24

¹ tn The Hebrew verb שׁוּף (shuf), which means “to crush; to wound,” in Gen 3:15 and Job 9:17, is problematic here. For a discussion of attempts to relate the verb to Arabic roots, see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 251. Many emend the form to יְשׂוּכֵּנִי (yesukkeniy), from the root שׂכך (“to cover,” an alternate form of סכך), a reading assumed in the present translation.

² tn Heb “and night, light, around me.”