44:16 Judah replied, “What can we say 1 to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? 2 God has exposed the sin of your servants! 3 We are now my lord’s slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”
32:23 “But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned 4 against the Lord. And know that your sin will find you out.
59:12 For you are aware of our many rebellious deeds, 5
and our sins testify against us;
indeed, we are aware of our rebellious deeds;
we know our sins all too well. 6
1 tn The imperfect verbal form here indicates the subject’s potential.
2 tn The Hitpael form of the verb צָדֵק (tsadeq) here means “to prove ourselves just, to declare ourselves righteous, to prove our innocence.”
3 sn God has exposed the sin of your servants. The first three questions are rhetorical; Judah is stating that there is nothing they can say to clear themselves. He therefore must conclude that they have been found guilty.
4 tn The nuance of the perfect tense here has to be the future perfect.
5 tn Heb “for many are our rebellious deeds before you.”
6 tn Heb “indeed [or “for”] our rebellious deeds (are) with us, and our sins, we know them.”