OET interlinear PSA 73:11

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

אֵיכָ֥ה יָדַֽע־אֵ֑ל וְ⁠יֵ֖שׁ דֵּעָ֣ה בְ⁠עֶלְיֽוֹן

how know god and,is_there knowledge in/on/at/with,most_high

The phrase How does God know and the phrase is there knowledge in the Most High mean basically the same thing. The second phrase emphasizes the meaning of the first by repeating the same idea with different words. Hebrew poetry was based on this kind of repetition, and it would be good to show this to your readers by including both phrases in your translation rather than combining them. However, if repeating the same idea might confuse your readers, you could combine the phrases into one. Alternate translation: “How does God know?” or “Does God have knowledge?”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

וְֽ⁠אָמְר֗וּ

and,say

Here, the word they could refer to: (1) wicked people. Alternate translation: “And wicked people say” or “And the wicked say” (2) people who are righteous and obey God. Alternate translation: “And righteous people say” or “And godly people say”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

אֵיכָ֥ה יָדַֽע־אֵ֑ל וְ⁠יֵ֖שׁ דֵּעָ֣ה בְ⁠עֶלְיֽוֹן

how know god and,is_there knowledge in/on/at/with,most_high

Here, wicked people are not asking for information, but are using the question form to express that they do not think God knows about the evil things they do and/or does not care about the evil things they do. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate these words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “Surely God does not know what we are doing! Surely the Most High has no knowledge of it!” or “Surely God does not care about we are doing! Surely what we are doing does not matter to the Most High!”

Note 4 topic: writing-quotations

אֵיכָ֥ה יָדַֽע־אֵ֑ל וְ⁠יֵ֖שׁ דֵּעָ֣ה בְ⁠עֶלְיֽוֹן

how know god and,is_there knowledge in/on/at/with,most_high

This portion of this verse is a quotation of what the wicked people said or thought to themselves. If it would be helpful in your language, you could indicate this with quotation marks (as the ULT does) or with whatever other punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate a quotation.

Note 5 topic: translate-names

בְ⁠עֶלְיֽוֹן

in/on/at/with,most_high

Here, Most High is a name for God. The ULT indicates that this phrase is a name for God by capitalizing it. Use a natural way in your language to indicate that this is a name or title for God.