Job 24:17

24:17 For all of them, ¹  the morning is to them

like deep darkness;

they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

Job 41:34

41:34 It looks on every haughty being;

it is king over all that are proud.” ² 

Psalms 55:4

55:4 My heart beats violently ³  within me;

the horrors of death overcome me. ⁴ 

Proverbs 14:32

14:32 The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, ⁵ 

but the righteous have refuge ⁶  even in the threat of death. ⁷ 

Proverbs 14:1

14:1 Every wise woman ⁸  builds ⁹  her household, ¹⁰ 

but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ¹¹  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ¹²  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Hebrews 2:15

2:15 and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

[24:17]  ¹ tn Heb “together.”

[41:34]  ² tn Heb “the sons of pride.” Dhorme repoints the last word to get “all the wild beasts,” but this misses the point of the verse. This animal looks over every proud creature – but he is king of them all in that department.

[55:4]  ³ tn Heb “shakes, trembles.”

[55:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “the terrors of death have fallen on me.”

[14:32]  ⁵ tn The prepositional phrase must be “in his time of trouble” (i.e., when catastrophe comes). Cf. CEV “In times of trouble the wicked are destroyed.” A wicked person has nothing to fall back on in such times.

[14:32]  ⁶ sn The righteous have hope in a just retribution – they have a place of safety even in death.

[14:32]  ⁷ tc The LXX reads this as “in his integrity,” as if it were בְּתוּמּוֹ (bÿtumo) instead of “in his death” (בְּמוֹתוֹ, bÿmoto). The LXX is followed by some English versions (e.g., NAB “in his honesty,” NRSV “in their integrity,” and TEV “by their integrity”).

[14:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “wise ones of women.” The construct phrase חַכְמוֹת נָשִׁים (khakhmot nashim) features a wholistic genitive: “wise women.” The plural functions in a distributive sense: “every wise woman.” The contrast is between wise and foolish women (e.g., Prov 7:10-23; 31:10-31).

[14:1]  ⁹ tn The perfect tense verb in the first colon functions in a gnomic sense, while the imperfect tense in the second colon is a habitual imperfect.

[14:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “house.” This term functions as a synecdoche of container (= house) for contents (= household, family).

[1:1]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

[1:1]  ¹² tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.