Für ihn, der nach Gottes Willen lebte, war es eine Qual, die Bosheit dieser Menschen Tag für Tag hören und sehen zu müssen.

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(for as he lived among them, that righteous man tormented himself day by day with the lawless deeds he saw and heard(A))—

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(for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul[a] by the lawless deeds he saw and heard[b])

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:8 tn Grk “that righteous man tormented his righteous soul.”
  2. 2 Peter 2:8 tn Grk “by lawless deeds, in seeing and hearing [them].”