Text -- Jeremiah 5:4 (NET)

5:4 I thought, “Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jer 5:4

¹ tn Heb “Surely they are poor.” The translation is intended to make clear the explicit contrasts and qualifications drawn in this verse and the next.

² tn Heb “the way of the Lord.”

³ tn Heb “the judgment [or ordinance] of their God.”