Still Broken: Jeremiah's Lament

Following the context

A short detour. There is a passage elsewhere with the same shape though no direct connection, and setting them next to each other makes the writers' different concerns visible.

（ナホム書 第2章）

A short detour. There is a passage elsewhere with the same shape though no direct connection, and setting them next to each other makes the writers' different concerns visible.（バルク書 3:17-22）

14He was thoughtlessly answered by some one, That he did wrong to boast of this.

15Well; since I have done this, said he, be the cause what it may, shall I not enter with or without your consent?

マカバイ記三 1:14-15（Brenton 訳・七十人訳から（英語））

How you render this one word determines the meaning of the whole paragraph. A translator has to decide, and the decision is already an interpretation. Readers deserve to know that a decision was made.

（ピリポの福音書 第9章）

What I read

I went through several scholarly treatments and found nothing decisive. On reflection, the absence of anything decisive may be the most appropriate result this passage could produce.（ピレモンへの手紙 1:9）

I went through several scholarly treatments and found nothing decisive. On reflection, the absence of anything decisive may be the most appropriate result this passage could produce.

Some people are consoled by this verse and others are wounded by it, often in the same room. The writer almost certainly did not anticipate that. It is left for readers to carry.（ゼカリヤ書 11:9-11）

10だから、わたしがそちらへ行った時、彼のしわざを指摘しようと思う。彼は口ぎたなくわたしたちをののしり、そればかりか、兄弟たちを受けいれようともせず、受けいれようとする人たちを妨げて、教会から追い出している。

ヨハネの第三の手紙 1:10（口語訳（日本語））

The text itself

Let me set the terms. This is not an argument about doctrinal correctness. It is one reader's account of what the text can be made to yield. I am going to leave the ending open on purpose.（ユダの福音書 2:3）