Psalm 89/Notes/Phrasal.v. 23.255016
From Psalms: Layer by Layer
- The phrase "unjust person" is, literally, "son of injustice" or "son of wickedness" (NASB, cf. ELB). This is a common Hebrew idiom. In Hebrew, the word "son" is often "followed by [a] word of quality, characteristic, etc." (BDB) to describe a particular kind of person. A "son of injustice" is a person characterized by injustice, i.e., "an unjust person" (cf. the phrase בְנֵי־עַוְלָה in 2 Sam 3:34; 7:10; Hos 10:9).