Text -- Psalms 139:11 (NET)

139:11 If I were to say, “Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 139:11

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.”