Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Hedrick Gary <GaryH AT cjfm.org>]

הבאישו נמקו חבורתי מפני אולתי׃

Pere, the English translations all say essentially the same thing.

I suspect the same would be true of Spanish translations.

Are you struggling with the translation itself or the interpretation?

If for example you can imagine David suffering from some sort of open sore on 
his body (possibly an STD, for instance), and him thinking that the ailment 
was a result of something he did in his earlier life, the Hebrew text makes 
perfect sense.

Sometimes Occam's Razor can apply even to biblical Hebrew.

Gary Hedrick
San Antonio, Texas USA

On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Pere Porta wrote:

> Hi, list.
> 
> I'm struggling with Ps 38:6.
> Among others, I read these translations of the verse:
> 
> --My wounds fester and stink because of my foolish sins.
> --My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness
> --My wounds stink *and *are corrupt because of my foolishness.
> (This last one is KJV)
> 
> Does this make any sense for us, readers of century XXI?
> 
> Is someone on this list able to compose an understandable translation of
> this verse?
> 
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
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