Discovery Box| (0.55060280597015) | (Job 27:2) |
2 tn “My judgment” would here, as before, be “my right.” God has taken this away by afflicting Job unjustly (A. B. Davidson, Job, 187). |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Psa 6:4) |
1 tn Heb “my being,” or “my life.” The suffixed form of נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “being”) is often equivalent to a pronoun in poetic texts. |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Psa 18:1) |
8 tn Heb “my strength.” “Strength” is metonymic here, referring to the Lord as the one who bestows strength to the psalmist; thus the translation “my source of strength.” |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Psa 18:46) |
4 tn Heb “the God of my deliverance.” 2 Sam 22:48 reads, “the God of the rocky cliff of my deliverance.” |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Psa 26:2) |
1 tn Heb “evaluate my kidneys and my heart.” The kidneys and heart were viewed as the seat of one’s volition, conscience, and moral character. |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Psa 27:2) |
3 tn Heb “my adversaries and my enemies against me.” The verb “draw near” (that is, “attack”) is understood by ellipsis; see the previous line. |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Psa 42:10) |
1 tc Heb “with a shattering in my bones my enemies taunt me.” A few medieval Hebrew |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Psa 43:2) |
1 tn Heb “God of my place of refuge,” that is, “God who is my place of refuge.” See Ps 31:4. |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Psa 70:2) |
1 tn Heb “may they be embarrassed and ashamed, the ones seeking my life.” Ps 40:14 has “together” after “ashamed,” and “to snatch it away” after “my life.” |
| (0.55060280597015) | (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). |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Pro 23:16) |
1 tn Heb “my kidneys”; in biblical Hebrew the term was used for the innermost being, the soul, the central location of the passions. Cf. NASB, NIV “my inmost being.” |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Ecc 1:16) |
5 tn Heb “my heart” (לִבִּי, libbi). The term “heart” is a metonymy of part for the whole (“my heart” = myself). |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Ecc 2:19) |
3 tn Heb “my labor.” As in 2:18, the term עֲמָלִי (’amali, “my labor”) is a metonymy of cause (i.e., my labor) for effect (i.e., fruit of my labor). The metonymy is recognized by several translations: “he will control all the wealth that I gained” (NJPS); “he will have control over all the fruits of my labor” (NAB); “he will have mastery over all the fruits of my labor” (NEB); “he will have control over all the fruit of my labor” (NASB); “he will be master over all my possessions” (MLB). |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Isa 49:5) |
4 tn Heb “and my God is [perhaps, “having been”] my strength.” The disjunctive structure (vav [ו] + subject + verb) is interpreted here as indicating a causal circumstantial clause. |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Isa 60:13) |
2 tn Heb “the place of my feet.” See Ezek 43:7, where the Lord’s throne is called the “place of the soles of my feet.” |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Jer 6:14) |
1 tn Heb “They heal [= bandage] the wound of my people lightly”; TEV “They act as if my people’s wounds were only scratches.” |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Jer 14:17) |
3 tn Heb “virgin daughter, my people.” The last noun here is appositional to the first two (genitive of apposition). Hence it is not ‘literally’ “virgin daughter of my people.” |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Jer 16:17) |
1 tn Heb “For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hidden from before me. And their sin is not hidden away from before my eyes.” |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Jer 23:2) |
1 tn Heb “about the shepherds who are shepherding my people. ‘You have caused my sheep….’” For the metaphor see the study note on the previous verse. |
| (0.55060280597015) | (Jer 27:5) |
1 tn Heb “by my great power and my outstretched arm.” Again “arm” is symbolical for “strength.” Compare the similar expression in 21:5. |
