translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “in a son of man, to whom there is no deliverance.”


text: Heb “his spirit goes out, it returns to his ground; in that day his plans die.” The singular refers to the representative man mentioned in v. 3 b.


text: Heb “the one who guards faithfulness forever.”


text: Heb “executes justice for the oppressed.”


text: Perhaps “discouraged” (see Ps 57:6 ).


text: Heb “he makes the way of the wicked twisted.” The “way of the wicked” probably refers to their course of life (see Prov 4:19 ; Jer 12:1 ). God makes their path tortuous in the sense that he makes them pay the harmful consequences of their actions.


text: Heb “for a generation and a generation.”