translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “to search [for].”


text: Heb “upon the face of.”


text: Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).


text: Heb “to cover his feet,” an idiom (euphemism) for relieving oneself (cf. NAB “to ease nature”).


text: Heb “is good in your eyes.”


text: Heb “the heart of David struck him.”


text: Heb “anointed.”


text: Or “for.”


text: Heb “went on.”


text: Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.


text: Heb “there is not in my hand.”


text: Heb “lifted his voice and wept.”


text: Or “righteous” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “you are in the right”; NLT “are a better man than I am.”


text: Heb “by the Lord .”


text: Heb “cut off.”


text: Heb “and David swore an oath to Saul.”