Discovery Box| (0.58033045454545) | (Job 27:12) |
1 tn The interrogative uses the demonstrative pronoun in its emphatic position: “Why in the world…?” (IBHS 312-13 §17.4.3c). |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Job 33:18) |
1 tn A number of interpreters and translations take this as “the pit” (see Job 17:14; cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Job 39:16) |
1 sn This verb, “to deal harshly; to harden; to treat cruelly,” is used for hardening the heart elsewhere (see Isa 63:17). |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 18:2) |
2 sn My stronghold. David often found safety in such strongholds. See 1 Sam 22:4-5; 24:22; 2 Sam 5:9, 17; 23:14. |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 18:40) |
2 sn Those who hate me. See v. 17, where it is the |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 27:2) |
2 sn To devour my flesh. The psalmist compares his enemies to dangerous, hungry predators (see 2 Kgs 9:36; Ezek 39:17). |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 57:1) |
6 sn In the shadow of your wings. The metaphor likens God to a protective mother bird (see also Pss 17:8; 36:7). |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 66:11) |
1 tn Heb “you brought us into a net.” This rare word for “net” also occurs in Ezek 12:13; 13:21; 17:20. |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 69:9) |
4 sn Jn 2:17 applies the first half of this verse to Jesus’ ministry in the context of John’s account of Jesus cleansing the temple. |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 70:1) |
1 sn Psalm 70. This psalm is almost identical to Ps 40:13-17. The psalmist asks for God’s help and for divine retribution against his enemies. |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 73:7) |
2 tn Heb “the thoughts of [their] heart [i.e., mind] cross over” (i.e., violate God’s moral boundary, see Ps 17:3). |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 83:18) |
1 tn After the preceding jussives (v. 17), the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose (“so that they may know”) or result. |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 89:14) |
2 tn Heb “are in front of your face.” The idiom can mean “confront” (Ps 17:13) or “meet, enter the presence of” (Ps 95:2). |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 102:17) |
3 tn The perfect verbal forms in vv. 16-17 are functioning as future perfects, indicating future actions that will precede the future developments described in v. 15. |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 103:11) |
1 tn For this sense of the verb גָבַר (gavar), see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 17, 19. |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 105:17) |
1 tn After the reference to the famine in v. 16, v. 17 flashes back to events that preceded the famine (see Gen 37). |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 106:37) |
1 tn The Hebrew term שֵׁדִים (shedim, “demons”) occurs only here and in Deut 32:17. Some type of lesser deity is probably in view. |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 117:2) |
1 tn For this sense of the Hebrew verb גָּבַר (gavar), see Ps 103:11 and L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 17, 19. |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 135:4) |
2 sn His special possession. The language echoes Exod 19:5; Deut 7:6; 14:2; 26:18. See also Mal 3:17. |
| (0.58033045454545) | (Psa 144:2) |
1 tn Heb “my loyal love,” which is probably an abbreviated form of “the God of my loyal love” (see Ps 59:10, 17). |
