Proverbs 14:34

Footnotes

1. 94 The verb תְּרוֹמֵם (téromem, translated “exalts”) is a Polel imperfect; it means “to lift up; to raise up; to elevate.” Here the upright dealings of the leaders and the people will lift up the people. The people’s condition in that nation will be raised.
2. 95 The term is the homonymic root II חֶסֶד (khesed, “shame; reproach”; 340 ), as reflected by the translation. Rabbinic exegesis generally took it as I חֶסֶד (“loyal love; kindness”) as if it said, “even the kindness of some nations is a sin because they do it only for a show” (so Rashi, a Jewish scholar who lived a.d. 1040–1105).