Psalms 10:14
14 You have taken notice, ▼▼ Heb “you see.” One could translate the perfect as generalizing, “you do take notice.”
for ▼
▼ If the preceding perfect is taken as generalizing, then one might understand כִּי (ki) as asseverative: “indeed, certainly.”
you always see ▼▼ Here the imperfect emphasizes God’s typical behavior.
one who inflicts pain and suffering. ▼▼ Heb “destruction and suffering,” which here refers metonymically to the wicked, who dish out pain and suffering to their victims.
The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; ▼
▼ Heb “to give into your hand, upon you, he abandons, [the] unfortunate [one].” The syntax is awkward and the meaning unclear. It is uncertain who or what is being given into God’s hand. Elsewhere the idiom “give into the hand” means to deliver into one’s possession. If “to give” goes with what precedes (as the accentuation of the Hebrew text suggests), then this may refer to the wicked man being delivered over to God for judgment. The present translation assumes that “to give” goes with what follows (cf. NEB, NIV, NRSV). The verb יַעֲזֹב (ya’azov) here has the nuance “entrust” (see Gen 39:6; Job 39:11); the direct object (“[his] cause”) is implied.
you deliver ▼
▼ Or “help.”
the fatherless. ▼ ▼
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