⁵ tn Heb “causes to go up.”

¹ tn Heb “causes the grass to sprout up.”

¹ tn Or “who always causes us to triumph.”

² tn Heb “causes poverty.” The expression is literally, “the palm of slackness causes poverty.”

⁴ tn Heb “words”; KJV, ASV “the causes”; NRSV “cases”; NLT “questions.”

³ tn Heb “over one who causes his way to be successful.”

¹ tn Heb “causes to fall” or “casts”; NAB “plunges…into.”

⁴ tn Heb “or the way of understanding causes him to know?”

¹ tn The Greek term σκανδαλίζω (skandalizw), translated here “causes to sin” can also be translated “offends” or “causes to stumble.”

¹ tn Heb “when he causes his sons to inherit what is his.”

² tn Heb “it causes good a healing.” This means it promotes healing.

² tn Or “causes his father to rejoice”; NAB “makes his father glad.”

⁵ tn Heb “and the drink of the thirsty he causes to fail.”

³ tn Heb “or [as] the man of his counsel causes him to know?”

² tn Heb “the goblet, the cup [that causes] staggering, you drank, you drained.”

² tn Heb “the cup of [= that causes] staggering” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV); NASB “the cup of reeling.”

¹ tn Heb “God causes the solitary ones to dwell in a house.” The participle suggests this is what God typically does.

³ tn Heb “causes its hands to run,” which must mean “quickly stretches out its hands” (to present tribute).

² tn The Hebrew word translated “disgrace” usually means “ridicule; taunt; reproach.” It can also refer to the reason the condition of shame or disgrace causes ridicule or a reproach.

² tn Heb “a dead body”; but in contrast to the person killed with a sword, this must refer to someone who died of natural causes.