Text -- Psalms 141:8 (NET)

141:8 Surely I am looking to you, O sovereign Lord. In you I take shelter. Do not expose me to danger!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 141:8

¹ tn Heb “my eyes [are] toward you.”

² tn Heb “do not lay bare my life.” Only here is the Piel form of the verb collocated with the term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “life”). In Isa 53:12 the Lord’s servant “lays bare (the Hiphil form of the verb is used) his life to death.”