Psalm 111/Notes/Verbal.V. 2.52880

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  • Some scholars and translators have claimed that studied here should actually be rendered 'to be studied.'[1] Even if we admit the possibility of a qal passive participle having future/gerundive-like semantics ('to be studied'), in this particular context, it makes better sense to read the participle as 'studied.' The fact that YHWH's worked are studied by people (v. 2b) is evidence of their greatness (v. 2a).
  1. ↑ Cf. Jerome: exquirenda (fut. pas. ptc.); JM 121e; ELB, NLT. GKC, on the other hand, claims that qal passive participles "always correspond to a Latin or Greek perfect participle passive" (GKC 116e; so LXX here: ἐξεζητημένα; cf. NIV, ESV, NET).