140:4 O Lord, shelter me from the power 1 of the wicked!
Protect me from violent men,
who plan to knock me over. 2
140:11 A slanderer 3 will not endure on 4 the earth;
calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down. 5
1 tn Heb “hands.”
2 tn Heb “to push down my steps.”
3 tn Heb “a man of a tongue.”
4 tn Heb “be established in.”
5 tn Heb “for blows.” The Hebrew noun מַדְחֵפֹה (madkhefoh, “blow”) occurs only here in the OT.