Exodus 16:7

16:7 and in the morning you will see ¹  the glory of the Lord, because he has heard ²  your murmurings against the Lord. As for us, what are we, ³  that you should murmur against us?”

Proverbs 21:30

21:30 There is no wisdom and there is no understanding,

and there is no counsel against ⁴  the Lord. ⁵ 

John 15:23

15:23 The one who hates me hates my Father too.

Acts 9:4

9:4 He ⁶  fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, ⁷  why are you persecuting me?” ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “morning, and you will see.”

² tn The form is a Qal infinitive construct with a preposition and a suffix. It forms an adverbial clause, usually of time, but here a causal clause.

³ tn The words “as for us” attempt to convey the force of the Hebrew word order, which puts emphasis on the pronoun: “and we – what?” The implied answer to the question is that Moses and Aaron are nothing, merely the messengers. The next verse repeats the question to further press the seriousness of what the Israelites are doing.

⁴ tn The form לְנֶגֶד (lÿneged) means “against; over against; in opposition to.” The line indicates they cannot in reality be in opposition, for human wisdom is nothing in comparison to the wisdom of God (J. H. Greenstone, Proverbs, 232).

⁵ sn The verse uses a single sentence to state that all wisdom, understanding, and advice must be in conformity to the will of God to be successful. It states it negatively – these things cannot be in defiance of God (e.g., Job 5:12-13; Isa 40:13-14).

⁶ tn Grk “and he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

⁷ tn The double vocative suggests emotion.

⁸ sn Persecuting me. To persecute the church is to persecute Jesus.