Psalms 64:6
ContextNETBible | They devise 1 unjust schemes; they disguise 2 a well-conceived plot. 3 Man’s inner thoughts cannot be discovered. 4 |
XREF | 1Sa 22:9; 1Sa 24:9; 1Sa 25:10; Ps 5:9; Ps 35:11; Pr 20:5; Isa 29:15; Jer 17:9,10; Da 6:4,5; Mt 26:59; Joh 18:29,30; Joh 19:7; 1Co 4:5 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “search out, examine,” which here means (by metonymy) “devise.” 2 tc The MT has תַּמְנוּ (tamnu, “we are finished”), a Qal perfect first common plural form from the verbal root תָּמַם (tamam). Some understand this as the beginning of a quotation of the enemies’ words and translate, “we have completed,” but the Hiphil would seem to be required in this case. The present translation follows many medieval Hebrew 3 tn Heb “a searched-out search,” which is understood as referring here to a thoroughly planned plot to destroy the psalmist. 4 tn Heb “and the inner part of man, and a heart [is] deep.” The point seems to be that a man’s inner thoughts are incapable of being discovered. No one is a mind reader! Consequently the psalmist is vulnerable to his enemies’ well-disguised plots. |