Mazmur 37:11

37:11 But the oppressed will possess the land

and enjoy great prosperity. ¹ 

Mazmur 37:22

37:22 Surely ²  those favored by the Lord ³  will possess the land,

but those rejected ⁴  by him will be wiped out. ⁵ 

Mazmur 37:29

37:29 The godly will possess the land

and will dwell in it permanently.

Yehezkiel 33:24-26

33:24 “Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.’ ⁶  33:25 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, ⁷  pray to ⁸  your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess ⁹  the land? 33:26 You rely ¹⁰  on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Will you possess the land?’

Matius 5:5

5:5 “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Matius 5:1

The Beatitudes

5:1 When ¹¹  he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain. ¹²  After he sat down his disciples came to him.

Pengkhotbah 3:10

3:10 I have observed the burden

that God has given to people ¹³  to keep them occupied.

Pengkhotbah 3:2

3:2 A time to be born, ¹⁴  and a time to die; ¹⁵ 

a time to plant, and a time to uproot what was planted;

Pengkhotbah 3:13

3:13 and also that everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil,

for these things ¹⁶  are a gift from God.

[37:11]  ¹ tn Heb “and they will take delight in (see v. 4) abundance of peace.”

[37:22]  ² tn The particle כִּי is best understood as asseverative or emphatic here.

[37:22]  ³ tn Heb “those blessed by him.” The pronoun “him” must refer to the Lord (see vv. 20, 23), so the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[37:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “cursed.”

[37:22]  ⁵ tn Or “cut off”; or “removed” (see v. 9).

[33:24]  ⁶ sn Outside of its seven occurrences in Ezekiel the term translated “possession” appears only in Exod 6:8 and Deut 33:4.

[33:25]  ⁷ sn This practice was a violation of Levitical law (see Lev 19:26).

[33:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “lift up your eyes.”

[33:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “Will you possess?”

[33:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “stand.”

[5:1]  ¹¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[5:1]  ¹² tn Or “up a mountain” (εἰς τὸ ὄρος, eis to oro").

[5:1]  sn The expression up the mountain here may be idiomatic or generic, much like the English “he went to the hospital” (cf. 15:29), or even intentionally reminiscent of Exod 24:12 (LXX), since the genre of the Sermon on the Mount seems to be that of a new Moses giving a new law.

[3:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “the sons of man.”

[3:2]  ¹⁴ tn The verb יָלָד (yalad, “to bear”) is used in the active sense of a mother giving birth to a child (HALOT 413 s.v. ילד; BDB 408 s.v. יָלָד). However, in light of its parallelism with “a time to die,” it should be taken as a metonymy of cause (i.e., to give birth to a child) for effect (i.e., to be born).

[3:2]  ¹⁵ sn In 3:2-8, Qoheleth uses fourteen sets of merisms (a figure using polar opposites to encompass everything in between, that is, totality), e.g., Deut 6:6-9; Ps 139:2-3 (see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 435).

[3:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “for it.” The referent of the 3rd person feminine singular independent person pronoun (“it”) is probably the preceding statement: “to eat, drink, and find satisfaction.” This would be an example of an anacoluthon (GKC 505-6 §167.b). Thus the present translation uses “these things” to indicate the reference back to the preceding.