Text -- Psalms 140:11-13 (NET)

140:11 A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down. 140:12 I know that the Lord defends the cause of the oppressed and vindicates the poor. 140:13 Certainly the godly will give thanks to your name; the morally upright will live in your presence.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 140:11

¹ tn Heb “a man of a tongue.”

² tn Heb “be established in.”

³ tn Heb “for blows.” The Hebrew noun מַדְחֵפֹה (madkhefoh, “blow”) occurs only here in the OT.

NET Notes: Psa 140:12

¹ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading a first person verb form here. The Kethib reads the second person.

² tn Heb “and the just cause of the poor.”