Keluaran 18:18
Konteks18:18 You will surely wear out, 1 both you and these people who are with you, for this is too 2 heavy a burden 3 for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.
Keluaran 36:4
Konteks36:4 So all the skilled people who were doing all the work on the sanctuary came from the work 4 they were doing
[18:18] 1 tn The verb means “to fall and fade” as a leaf (Ps 1:3). In Ps 18:45 it is used figuratively of foes fading away, failing in strength and courage (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 166). Here the infinitive absolute construction heightens the meaning.
[18:18] 2 tn Gesenius lists the specialized use of the comparative min (מ) where with an adjective the thought expressed is that the quality is too difficult for the attainment of a particular aim (GKC 430 §133.c).
[18:18] 3 tn Here “a burden” has been supplied.
[36:4] 4 tn Heb “a man, a man from his work”; or “each one from his work.”