36:6 He does not allow the wicked to live, 1
but he gives justice to the poor.
36:17 But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked,
judgment and justice take hold of you.
37:23 As for the Almighty, 2 we cannot attain to him!
He is great in power,
but justice 3 and abundant righteousness he does not oppress.
1 tn Or “he does not keep the wicked alive.”
2 tn The name “Almighty” is here a casus pendens, isolating the name at the front of the sentence and resuming it with a pronoun.
3 tn The MT places the major disjunctive accent (the atnach) under “power,” indicating that “and justice” as a disjunctive clause starting the second half of the verse (with ESV, NASB, NIV, NLT). Ignoring the Masoretic accent, NRSV has “he is great in power and justice.”