Genesis 48:21

48:21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you ¹  and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 48:1

Manasseh and Ephraim

48:1 After these things Joseph was told, ²  “Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

Genesis 20:3

20:3 But God appeared ³  to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead ⁴  because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.” ⁵ 

Proverbs 27:1

27:1 Do not boast ⁶  about tomorrow; ⁷ 

for you do not know ⁸  what a day may bring forth.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, ⁹ 

do it with all your might,

because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, ¹⁰ 

the place where you will eventually go. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 38:1

The Lord Hears Hezekiah’s Prayer

38:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. ¹²  The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”

Isaiah 38:3

38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹³  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ¹⁴  and how I have carried out your will.” ¹⁵  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ¹⁶ 

Mark 13:35

13:35 Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return – whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn –

James 4:14

4:14 You ¹⁷  do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? ¹⁸  For you are a puff of smoke ¹⁹  that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

[48:21]  ¹ tn The pronouns translated “you,” “you,” and “your” in this verse are plural in the Hebrew text.

[48:1]  ² tn Heb “and one said.” With no expressed subject in the Hebrew text, the verb can be translated with the passive voice.

[20:3]  ³ tn Heb “came.”

[20:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “Look, you [are] dead.” The Hebrew construction uses the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with a second person pronominal particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with by the participle. It is a highly rhetorical expression.

[20:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “and she is owned by an owner.” The disjunctive clause is causal or explanatory in this case.

[27:1]  ⁶ tn The form אַל־תִּתְהַלֵּל (’al-tithallel) is the Hitpael jussive negated; it is from the common verb “to praise,” and so in this setting means “to praise oneself” or “to boast.”

[27:1]  ⁷ sn The word “tomorrow” is a metonymy of subject, meaning what will be done tomorrow, or in the future in general.

[27:1]  ⁸ sn The expression “you do not know” balances the presumption of the first line, reminding the disciple of his ignorance and therefore his need for humility (e.g., Matt 6:34; Luke 12:20; Jas 4:13-16).

[9:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “Whatever your hand finds to do.”

[9:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Sheol.”

[9:10]  ¹¹ tn Or “where you are about to go.”

[38:1]  ¹² tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying”; NRSV “became sick and was at the point of death.”

[38:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[38:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”

[38:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[38:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”

[4:14]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “who” (continuing the description of the people of v. 13). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[4:14]  ¹⁸ tn Or “you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.”

[4:14]  ¹⁹ tn Or “a vapor.” The Greek word ἀτμίς (atmis) denotes a swirl of smoke arising from a fire (cf. Gen 19:28; Lev 16:13; Joel 2:30 [Acts 2:19]; Ezek 8:11).