Numbers 22:6

22:6 So ¹  now, please come and curse this nation ²  for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them ³  and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, ⁴  and whoever you curse is cursed.”

Job 5:13

5:13 He catches ⁵  the wise in their own craftiness, ⁶ 

and the counsel of the cunning ⁷  is brought to a quick end. ⁸ 

Psalms 105:25

105:25 He caused them ⁹  to hate his people,

and to mistreat ¹⁰  his servants.

Proverbs 16:25

16:25 There is a way that seems right to a person, ¹¹ 

but its end is the way that leads to death. ¹² 

Proverbs 21:30

21:30 There is no wisdom and there is no understanding,

and there is no counsel against ¹³  the Lord. ¹⁴ 

Acts 7:19

7:19 This was the one who exploited ¹⁵  our people ¹⁶  and was cruel to our ancestors, ¹⁷  forcing them to abandon ¹⁸  their infants so they would die. ¹⁹ 

Acts 23:12

The Plot to Kill Paul

23:12 When morning came, ²⁰  the Jews formed ²¹  a conspiracy ²²  and bound themselves with an oath ²³  not to eat or drink anything ²⁴  until they had killed Paul.

Acts 23:1

23:1 Paul looked directly ²⁵  at the council ²⁶  and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience ²⁷  before God to this day.”

Colossians 3:18-20

Exhortation to Households

3:18 Wives, submit to your ²⁸  husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

James 3:15-18

3:15 Such ²⁹  wisdom does not come ³⁰  from above but is earthly, natural, ³¹  demonic. 3:16 For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice. 3:17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, ³²  full of mercy and good fruit, ³³  impartial, and not hypocritical. ³⁴  3:18 And the fruit that consists of righteousness ³⁵  is planted ³⁶  in peace among ³⁷  those who make peace.

[22:6]  ¹ tn The two lines before this verse begin with the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh), and so they lay the foundation for these imperatives. In view of those circumstances, this is what should happen.

[22:6]  ² tn Heb “people.” So also in vv. 10, 17, 41.

[22:6]  ³ tn The construction uses the imperfect tense אוּכַל (’ukhal, “I will be able”) followed by the imperfect tense נַכֶּה (nakkeh, “we will smite/attack/defeat”). The second verb is clearly the purpose or the result of the first, even though there is no conjunction or particle.

[22:6]  ⁴ tn The verb is the Piel imperfect of בָּרַךְ (barakh), with the nuance of possibility: “whomever you may bless.” The Pual participle מְבֹרָךְ (mÿvorakh) serves as the predicate.

[5:13]  ⁵ tn The participles continue the description of God. Here he captures or ensnares the wise in their wickedly clever plans. See also Ps 7:16, where the wicked are caught in the pit they have dug – they are only wise in their own eyes.

[5:13]  ⁶ sn This is the only quotation from the Book of Job in the NT (although Rom 11:35 seems to reflect 41:11, and Phil 1:19 is similar to 13:6). Paul cites it in 1 Cor 3:19.

[5:13]  ⁷ tn The etymology of נִפְתָּלִים (niftalim) suggests a meaning of “twisted” (see Prov 8:8) in the sense of tortuous. See Gen 30:8; Ps 18:26 [27].

[5:13]  ⁸ tn The Niphal of מָהַר (mahar) means “to be hasty; to be irresponsible.” The meaning in the line may be understood in this sense: The counsel of the wily is hastened, that is, precipitated before it is ripe, i.e., frustrated (A. B. Davidson, Job, 39).

[105:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “their heart.”

[105:25]  ¹⁰ tn Or “to deal deceptively.” The Hitpael of נָכַל (nakhal) occurs only here and in Gen 37:18, where it is used of Joseph’s brothers “plotting” to kill him.

[16:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “There is a way that is right before a man [to the face of a man].”

[16:25]  ¹² tn Heb “the ways of death” (so KJV, ASV). This construct phrase features a genitive of destiny: “ways that lead to [or, end in] death.”This proverb is identical to 14:12.

[21:30]  ¹³ tn The form לְנֶגֶד (lÿneged) means “against; over against; in opposition to.” The line indicates they cannot in reality be in opposition, for human wisdom is nothing in comparison to the wisdom of God (J. H. Greenstone, Proverbs, 232).

[21:30]  ¹⁴ sn The verse uses a single sentence to state that all wisdom, understanding, and advice must be in conformity to the will of God to be successful. It states it negatively – these things cannot be in defiance of God (e.g., Job 5:12-13; Isa 40:13-14).

[7:19]  ¹⁵ tn According to L&N 88.147 it is also possible to translate κατασοφισάμενος (katasofisameno") as “took advantage by clever words” or “persuaded by sweet talk.”

[7:19]  ¹⁶ tn Or “race.”

[7:19]  ¹⁷ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

[7:19]  ¹⁸ tn Or “expose” (BDAG 303 s.v. ἔκθετος).

[7:19]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “so that they could not be kept alive,” but in this context the phrase may be translated either “so that they would not continue to live,” or “so that they would die” (L&N 23.89).

[23:12]  ²⁰ tn Grk “when it was day.”

[23:12]  ²¹ tn Grk “forming a conspiracy, bound.” The participle ποιήσαντες (poihsantes) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[23:12]  ²² tn L&N 30.72 has ‘some Jews formed a conspiracy’ Ac 23:12”; BDAG 979 s.v. συστροφή 1 has “Judeans came together in a mob 23:12. But in the last pass. the word may also mean – 2. the product of a clandestine gathering, plot, conspiracy” (see also Amos 7:10; Ps 63:3).

[23:12]  ²³ tn Or “bound themselves under a curse.” BDAG 63 s.v. ἀναθεματίζω 1 has “trans. put under a curse τινά someone…pleonastically ἀναθέματι ἀ. ἑαυτόν Ac 23:14…ἀ. ἑαυτόν vss. 12, 21, 13 v.l.” On such oaths see m. Shevi’it 3:1-5. The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[23:12]  ²⁴ tn The word “anything” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.

[23:1]  ²⁵ tn Grk “Paul, looking directly at the council, said.” The participle ἀτενίσας (atenisa") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[23:1]  ²⁶ tn Grk “the Sanhedrin” (the Sanhedrin was the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).

[23:1]  ²⁷ tn BDAG 846 s.v. πολιτεύομαι 3 has “W. a double dat. συνειδήσει ἀγαθῇ πεπολίτευμαι τῷ θεῷ I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God Ac 23:1.”

[3:18]  ²⁸ tn The article τοῖς (tois) with ἀνδράσιν (andrasin, “husbands”) has been translated as a possessive pronoun (“your”); see ExSyn 215.

[3:15]  ²⁹ tn Grk “This.”

[3:15]  ³⁰ tn Grk “come down”; “descend.”

[3:15]  ³¹ tn Grk “soulish,” which describes life apart from God, characteristic of earthly human life as opposed to what is spiritual. Cf. 1 Cor 2:14; 15:44-46; Jude 19.

[3:17]  ³² tn Or “willing to yield,” “open to persuasion.”

[3:17]  ³³ tn Grk “fruits.” The plural Greek term καρπούς has been translated with the collective singular “fruit.”

[3:17]  ³⁴ tn Or “sincere.”

[3:18]  ³⁵ tn Grk “the fruit of righteousness,” meaning righteous living as a fruit, as the thing produced.

[3:18]  ³⁶ tn Grk “is sown.”

[3:18]  ³⁷ tn Or “for,” or possibly “by.”