Ayub 18:10

18:10 A rope is hidden for him ¹  on the ground

and a trap for him ²  lies on the path.

Mazmur 31:5

31:5 Into your hand I entrust my life; ³ 

you will rescue ⁴  me, O Lord, the faithful God.

Mazmur 69:23

69:23 May their eyes be blinded! ⁵ 

Make them shake violently! ⁶ 

Yesaya 8:14

8:14 He will become a sanctuary, ⁷ 

but a stone that makes a person trip,

and a rock that makes one stumble –

to the two houses of Israel. ⁸ 

He will become ⁹  a trap and a snare

to the residents of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ 

[18:10]  ¹ tn Heb “his rope.” The suffix must be a genitive expressing that the trap was for him, to trap him, and so an objective genitive.

[18:10]  ² tn Heb “his trap.” The pronominal suffix is objective genitive here as well.

[31:5]  ³ tn Heb “my spirit.” The noun רוּחַ (ruakh, “spirit”) here refers to the animating spirit that gives the psalmist life.

[31:5]  ⁴ tn Or “redeem.” The perfect verbal form is understood here as anticipatory, indicating rhetorically the psalmist’s certitude and confidence that God will intervene. The psalmist is so confident of God’s positive response to his prayer that he can describe his deliverance as if it had already happened. Another option is to take the perfect as precative, expressing a wish or request (“rescue me”; cf. NIV). See IBHS 494-95 §30.5.4c, d. However, not all grammarians are convinced that the perfect is used as a precative in biblical Hebrew.

[69:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “may their eyes be darkened from seeing.”

[69:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “make their hips shake continually.”

[8:14]  ⁷ tn Because the metaphor of protection (“sanctuary”) does not fit the negative mood that follows in vv. 14b-15, some contend that מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash, “sanctuary”) is probably a corruption of an original מוֹקֵשׁ (moqesh, “snare”), a word that appears in the next line (cf. NAB and H. Wildberger, Isaiah, 1:355-56). If the MT reading is retained (as in the above translation), the fact that Yahweh is a sanctuary wraps up the point of v. 13 and stands in contrast to God’s treatment of those who rebel against him (the rest of v. 14).

[8:14]  ⁸ sn The two “houses” of Israel (= the patriarch Jacob) are the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah.

[8:14]  ⁹ tn These words are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. וְהָיָה (vÿhayah, “and he will be”) does double duty in the parallel structure of the verse.

[8:14]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.