5:22 Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings, 1 I will not be satisfied;
I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves. 2
9:2 Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, 3
my hand would pull them up from there.
Even if they could climb up to heaven,
I would drag them down from there.
1 tn Heb “burnt offerings and your grain offerings.”
2 tn Heb “Peace offering[s], your fattened calves, I will not look at.”
3 tn Heb “into Sheol” (so ASV, NASB, NRSV), that is, the land of the dead localized in Hebrew thought in the earth’s core or the grave. Cf. KJV “hell”; NCV, NLT “the place of the dead”; NIV “the depths of the grave.”