119:21 You reprimand arrogant people.
Those who stray from your commands are doomed. 1
119:69 Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, 2
but I observe your precepts with all my heart.
1 tn Heb “accursed.” The traditional punctuation of the Hebrew text takes “accursed” with the previous line (“arrogant, accursed ones”), but it is preferable to take it with the second line as the predicate of the statement.
2 tn Heb “smear over me a lie.”