18:18 He is driven 1 from light into darkness
and is banished from the world.
14:32 The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, 2
but the righteous have refuge 3 even in the threat of death. 4
23:12 So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery.
They will stumble and fall headlong.
For I will bring disaster on them.
A day of reckoning is coming for them.” 5
The Lord affirms it! 6
1 tn The verbs in this verse are plural; without the expressed subject they should be taken in the passive sense.
2 tn The prepositional phrase must be “in his time of trouble” (i.e., when catastrophe comes). Cf. CEV “In times of trouble the wicked are destroyed.” A wicked person has nothing to fall back on in such times.
3 sn The righteous have hope in a just retribution – they have a place of safety even in death.
4 tc The LXX reads this as “in his integrity,” as if it were בְּתוּמּוֹ (bÿtumo) instead of “in his death” (בְּמוֹתוֹ, bÿmoto). The LXX is followed by some English versions (e.g., NAB “in his honesty,” NRSV “in their integrity,” and TEV “by their integrity”).
5 tn For the last two lines see 11:23 and the notes there.
6 tn Heb “Oracle of the