Discovery Box| (0.44141944444444) | (Job 37:7) |
1 tn Heb “by the hand of every man he seals.” This line is intended to mean with the heavy rains God suspends all agricultural activity. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Psa 12:2) |
1 tn Heb “falsehood they speak, a man with his neighbor.” The imperfect verb forms in v. 2 describe what is typical in the psalmist’s experience. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Psa 19:5) |
4 sn Like a strong man. The metaphorical language reflects the brilliance of the sunrise, which attests to the sun’s vigor. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Psa 31:12) |
1 tn Heb “I am forgotten, like a dead man, from [the] heart.” The “heart” is here viewed as the center of one’s thoughts. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Psa 36:7) |
2 tn Heb “and the sons of man in the shadow of your wings find shelter.” The preservation of physical life is in view, as the next verse makes clear. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Psa 41:9) |
1 tn Heb “man of my peace.” The phrase here refers to one’s trusted friend (see Jer 38:22; Obad 7). |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Psa 52:2) |
2 tn Heb “like a sharpened razor, doer of deceit.” The masculine participle עָשָׂה (’asah) is understood as a substantival vocative, addressed to the powerful man. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Psa 56:4) |
2 tn Heb “flesh,” which refers by metonymy to human beings (see v. 11, where “man” is used in this same question), envisioned here as mortal and powerless before God. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Psa 69:1) |
3 tn The Hebrew term נפשׁ (nefesh) here refers to the psalmist’s throat or neck. The psalmist compares himself to a helpless, drowning man. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Psa 94:11) |
1 tn Heb “the |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Psa 140:1) |
2 tn Heb “from a wicked man.” The Hebrew uses the singular in a representative or collective sense (note the plural verbs in v. 2). |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Psa 140:1) |
3 tn Heb “a man of violent acts.” The Hebrew uses the singular in a representative or collective sense (note the plural verbs in v. 2). |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Psa 146:4) |
1 tn Heb “his spirit goes out, it returns to his ground; in that day his plans die.” The singular refers to the representative man mentioned in v. 3b. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Pro 2:14) |
1 tn The articular plural active participle functions as the second attributive adjective for אִישׁ (’ish, “man”) in v. 12b. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Pro 7:19) |
1 tn Heb “the man.” The LXX interpreted it as “my husband,” taking the article to be used as a possessive. Many English versions do the same. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Pro 16:9) |
1 tn Heb “the heart of a man.” This stresses that it is within the heart that plans are made. Only those plans that are approved by God will succeed. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Pro 16:29) |
1 tn Heb “man of violence.” He influences his friends toward violence. The term חָמָס (khamas, “violence”) often refers to sins against society, social injustices, and crimes. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Pro 19:3) |
2 sn J. H. Greenstone comments: “Man’s own failures are the result of his own folly and should not be attributed to God” (Proverbs, 201). |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Ecc 6:5) |
3 sn The Hebrew term translated rest here refers to freedom from toil, anxiety, and misery – part of the miserable misfortune that the miserly man of wealth must endure. |
| (0.44141944444444) | (Ecc 8:9) |
8 tn Heb “a man exercises power over [another] man to his harm” [or “to his own harm”]. The 3rd person masculine singular singular pronominal suffix לוֹ (lo, “to his”) may refer to the antecedent אָדָם (’adam, “man” or “men”), being understood either in a singular sense (so NEB, RSV, NRSV, NAB, ASV, NASB) or in a collective sense (Moffatt, NJPS, NIV margin). However, the antecedent might be הָאָדם (ha’adam, “[one] man” = the king) with the suffix functioning reflexively: “to his own harm” (KJV, ASV margin, YLT, Douay, NIV). |
