Psalms 81:12

81:12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires; ¹ 

they did what seemed right to them. ² 

Genesis 5:24

5:24 Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared ³  because God took ⁴  him away.

Leviticus 26:27-28

26:27 “‘If in spite of this ⁵  you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me, ⁶  26:28 I will walk in hostile rage against you ⁷  and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

Leviticus 26:1

Exhortation to Obedience

26:1 “‘You must not make for yourselves idols, ⁸  so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before ⁹  it, for I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 16:31

16:31 It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves. ¹⁰  It is a perpetual statute. ¹¹ 

Job 31:5

31:5 If ¹²  I have walked in falsehood,

and if ¹³  my foot has hastened ¹⁴  to deceit –

Proverbs 1:15

1:15 My child, do not go down ¹⁵  their way, ¹⁶ 

withhold yourself ¹⁷  from their path; ¹⁸ 

Proverbs 4:14-15

4:14 Do not enter the path of the wicked

or walk ¹⁹  in the way of those who are evil.

4:15 Avoid it, do not go on it;

turn away from it, and go on. ²⁰ 

Proverbs 13:20

13:20 The one who associates ²¹  with the wise grows wise,

but a companion of fools suffers harm. ²² 

Ezekiel 20:18

20:18 “‘But I said to their children ²³  in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, ²⁴  nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 20:1

Israel’s Rebellion

20:1 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, ²⁵  some of the elders ²⁶  of Israel came to seek ²⁷  the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.

Ezekiel 4:3

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ²⁸  and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign ²⁹  for the house of Israel.

[81:12]  ¹ tn Heb “and I sent him away in the stubbornness of their heart.”

[81:12]  ² tn Heb “they walked in their counsel.” The prefixed verbal form is either preterite (“walked”) or a customary imperfect (“were walking”).

[5:24]  ³ tn The Hebrew construction has the negative particle אֵין (’en, “there is not,” “there was not”) with a pronominal suffix, “he was not.” Instead of saying that Enoch died, the text says he no longer was present.

[5:24]  ⁴ sn The text simply states that God took Enoch. Similar language is used of Elijah’s departure from this world (see 2 Kgs 2:10). The text implies that God overruled death for this man who walked with him.

[26:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “And if in this.”

[26:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “with me.”

[26:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “in rage of hostility with you”; NASB “with wrathful hostility”; NRSV “I will continue hostile to you in fury”; CEV “I’ll get really furious.”

[26:1]  ⁹ sn For the literature regarding the difficult etymology and meaning of the term for “idols” (אֱלִילִם, ’elilim), see the literature cited in the note on Lev 19:4. It appears to be a diminutive play on words with אֵל (’el, “god, God”) and, perhaps at the same time, recalls a common Semitic word for “worthless, weak, powerless, nothingness.” Snaith suggests a rendering of “worthless godlings.”

[26:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “on.” The “sculpted stone” appears to be some sort of stone with images carved into (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 181, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 449).

[16:31]  ¹¹ tn See the note on v. 29 above.

[16:31]  ¹² tn Compare v. 29a above.

[31:5]  ¹³ tn The normal approach is to take this as the protasis, and then have it resumed in v. 7 after a parenthesis in v. 6. But some take v. 6 as the apodosis and a new protasis in v. 7.

[31:5]  ¹⁴ tn The “if” is understood by the use of the consecutive verb.

[31:5]  ¹⁵ sn The verbs “walk” and “hasten” (referring in the verse to the foot) are used metaphorically for the manner of life Job lived.

[1:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “do not walk.”

[1:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in the way with them.”

[1:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “your foot.” The term “foot” (רֶגֶל, regel) is a synecdoche of part (= your foot) for the whole person (= yourself).

[1:15]  ¹⁸ sn The word “path” (נְתִיבָה, nÿtivah) like the word “way” (דֶּרֶךְ, derekh) is used as an idiom (developed from a hypocatastasis), meaning “conduct, course of life.”

[4:14]  ¹⁷ tn The verb אָשַׁר (’ashar, “to walk”) is not to be confused with the identically spelled homonym אָשַׁר “to pronounce happy” as in BDB 80 s.v. אָשַׁר.

[4:15]  ¹⁹ sn The verb עָבַר (’avar, “to cross over; to travel through”) ends both cola. In the first it warns against going on wrong paths; in the second it means “to go your own way,” but may hint that the way will cross over the wrong way. The rapid sequence of commands stresses the urgency of the matter.

[13:20]  ²¹ tn Heb “walks.” When used with the preposition אֶת (’et, “with”), the verb הָלַךְ (halakh, “to walk”) means “to associate with” someone (BDB 234 s.v. הָלַךְ II.3.b; e.g., Mic 6:8; Job 34:8). The active participle of הָלַךְ (“to walk”) stresses continual, durative action. One should stay in close association with the wise, and move in the same direction they do.

[13:20]  ²² tn The verb form יֵרוֹעַ (yeroa’) is the Niphal imperfect of רָעַע (ra’a’), meaning “to suffer hurt.” Several have attempted to parallel the repetition in the wordplay of the first colon. A. Guillaume has “he who associates with fools will be left a fool” (“A Note on the Roots רִיע, יָרַע, and רָעַע in Hebrew,” JTS 15 [1964]: 294). Knox translated the Vulgate thus: “Fool he ends that fool befriends” (cited by D. Kidner, Proverbs [TOTC], 104).

[20:18]  ²³ tn Heb “sons,” reflecting the patriarchal idiom of the culture.

[20:18]  ²⁴ tn Or “standard of justice.” See Ezek 7:27.

[20:1]  ²⁵ sn The date would be August 14th, 591 b.c. The seventh year is the seventh year of Jehoiachin’s exile.

[20:1]  ²⁶ tn Heb “men from the elders.”

[20:1]  ²⁷ tn See the note at 14:3.

[4:3]  ²⁷ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

[4:3]  ²⁸ tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.