88:3 For my life 1 is filled with troubles
and I am ready to enter Sheol. 2
88:4 They treat me like 3 those who descend into the grave. 4
I am like a helpless man, 5
88:5 adrift 6 among the dead,
like corpses lying in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
and who are cut off from your power. 7
1 tn Or “my soul.”
2 tn Heb “and my life approaches Sheol.”
3 tn Heb “I am considered with.”
4 tn Heb “the pit.” The noun בּוֹר (bor, “pit,” “cistern”) is sometimes used of the grave and/or the realm of the dead.
5 tn Heb “I am like a man [for whom] there is no help.”
6 tn Heb “set free.”
7 tn Heb “from your hand.”