G. R. Driver suggests, “the counsel of a friend is sweeter than one's own advice” (literally, “more than the counsel of the soul”). He also suggests “more than ...

[21:28] tn Heb “And where is the tent, the dwellings of the wicked.” The word “dwellings of the wicked” is in apposition to “tent.” A relative pronoun must be ...

G. R. Driver suggests, “the counsel of a friend is sweeter than one's own advice” (literally, “more than the counsel of the soul”). He also suggests “more than ...

The LXX reads “and the soul is rent by misfortunes.” The MT, for want of better or more convincing readings, may be interpreted to mean something like “[Just as] ...

[20:28] tn The first line uses two Hebrew words, חֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת (khesed ve'emet, “loyal love and truth”), to tell where security lies. The first word is the covenant ...

Orlinsky (p. 57) finds a cognate Arabic word meaning “will not awake” and translates it “so long as the heavens are not rent asunder” (H. M. Orlinsky, “The ...

... Book of Ruth). This is the near kinsman who will pay off one's debts, defend the family, avenge a killing, marry the widow of the deceased. The word ...

E. Dhorme, (Job, 197) takes it to mean “engraved” as on stone; from a custom of inscribing decrees on tablets of stone he derives the meaning here of “decreed.” ...

57) finds a cognate Arabic word meaning “will not awake” and translates it “so long as the heavens are not rent asunder” (H. M. Orlinsky, “The Hebrew and Greek ...

[1:14] tn Heb “Throw in your lot with us.” This is a figurative expression (hypocatastasis) urging the naive to join their life of crime and divide their ...