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12:9 \u201cAll around go the wicked, they have dug deep pits for the sons of men.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This whole line, which reverts to the triumphalist wicked, looks tacked on, because the declaration of God\u2019s guarding the just in the previous line is a characteristic upbeat psalm ending. The dubiety of the line is reinforced by the first two words of the second verset, <\/span>kerum zulot<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> which makes no evident sense and can be understood only through an exegetical somersault (for example, the New Jewish Publication Society, \u201cwhen baseness is exalted\u201d). Some emendation seems necessary, and the present translation, conjecturally, presupposes that the final <\/span>mem<\/span><\/em> of <\/span>kerum<\/span><\/em> should be moved forward to begin the next word, thus yielding an intelligible <\/span>karu<\/span><\/em>, \u201cdug,\u201d a verb often associated in Psalms with the wicked. The object of the verb might then be <\/span>metsulot<\/span><\/em>, depths, or perhaps <\/span>metsudot<\/span><\/em>, traps, though if such a word once stood here, it has been lost in scribal transmission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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