Context 4:8 We are experiencing trouble on every side,1 but are not crushed; we are perplexed,2 but not driven to despair;
4:9 we are persecuted, but not abandoned;3 we are knocked down,4 but not destroyed,
[4:8]1tnGrk “we are hard pressed [by crowds] on every side.”
[4:9]4tn Or “badly hurt.” It is possible to interpret καταβαλλόμενοι (kataballomenoi) here as “badly hurt”: “[we are] badly hurt, but not destroyed” (L&N 20.21).