Psalm 37/Notes/Textual.vv. 1-2.725758

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11QPsD reads יבלון (probably a defective spelling of יִבֹּלוּן) (cf. DJD XXIII, 65). The LXX (ἀποπεσοῦνται) probably agrees with this reading. Although the verb ἀποπίπτω does not elsewhere translate the root בלה, but rather מלל ( Job 24:24; Ps 89:6) and נפל (Job 29:24; Ps 5:11), the related verb ἐκπίπτω is used to translate נבל in Isa 40:7—ἐξηράνθη ὁ χόρτος, καὶ τὸ ἄνθος ἐξέπεσεν.