73:14 I suffer all day long,
and am punished every morning.”
149:7 in order to take 1 revenge on the nations,
and punish foreigners.
38:14 I am like a man who cannot hear
and is incapable of arguing his defense. 2
39:11 You severely discipline people for their sins; 3
like a moth you slowly devour their strength. 4
Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)
1 tn Heb “to do.”
1 tn Heb “and there is not in his mouth arguments.”
1 tn “with punishments on account of sin you discipline a man.”
2 tc Heb “you cause to dissolve, like a moth, his desired [thing].” The translation assumes an emendation of חֲמוּדוֹ (khamudo, “his desirable [thing]”) to חֶמְדוֹ (khemdo, “his loveliness” [or “beauty”]), a reading that is supported by a few medieval Hebrew