76 Heb “do not walk.”
77 Heb “in the way with them.”
78 Heb “your foot.” The term “foot” (רֶגֶל, regel) is a synecdoche of part (= your foot) for the whole person (= yourself).
79 The word “path” (נְתִיבָה, nétivah) like the word “way” (דֶּרֶךְ, derekh) is used as an idiom (developed from a hypocatastasis), meaning “conduct, course of life.”
80 Heb “their feet.” The term “feet” is a synecdoche of the part (= their feet) for the whole person (= they), stressing the eagerness of the robbers.
81 Heb “run.” The verb רוּץ (ruts, “run”) functions here as a metonymy of association, meaning “to be eager” to do something ( 930 ).
82 Heb “to harm.” The noun רַע (ra’) has a four-fold range of meanings: (1) “pain, harm” (Prov 3:30), (2) “calamity, disaster” (13:21), (3) “distress, misery” (14:32) and (4) “moral evil” (8:13; see 948–949 ). The parallelism with “swift to shed blood” suggests it means “to inflict harm, injury.”
83 The imperfect tense verbs may be classified as habitual or progressive imperfects describing their ongoing continual activity.
84 The editors suggest deleting this entire verse from because it does not appear in several versions (Codex B of the , Coptic, Arabic) and is similar to Isa 59:7a. It is possible that it was a scribal gloss (intentional addition) copied into the margin from Isaiah. But this does not adequately explain the differences. It does fit the context well enough to be original.