10:1 Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead, 1
those who are always instituting unfair regulations, 2
41:29 Look, all of them are nothing, 3
their accomplishments are nonexistent;
their metal images lack any real substance. 4
1 tn Heb “Woe [to] those who decree evil decrees.” On הוֹי (hoy, “woe, ah”) see the note on the first phrase of 1:4.
2 tn Heb “[to] the writers who write out harm.” The participle and verb are in the Piel, suggesting repetitive action.
3 tc The Hebrew text has אָוֶן (’aven, “deception,” i.e., “false”), but the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa has אין (“nothing”), which forms a better parallel with אֶפֶס (’efes, “nothing”) in the next line. See also 40:17 and 41:12.
4 tn Heb “their statues are wind and nothing”; NASB “wind and emptiness”; NIV “wind and confusion.”