Proverbs — Footnotes

🔗Chapter 1

1:15 — HOTTP with uncertainty, and LXX omit verse 16: For their feet run to evil, And they hurry to shed blood.

🔗Chapter 6

6:29 — has sex with her, literally 'touches her'. See footnote at 1 Corinthians 7:1.

🔗Chapter 11

11:13 — double-tongued, follows LXX for consistency with use in Sirach. Previously translated as 'talebearer'.

🔗Chapter 14

14:32 — or, 'in his integrity'

🔗Chapter 19

19:23 — to life, See 1 Samuel 25:6 and footnote there.

🔗Chapter 21

21:4 — HOTTP and LXX omit verse 5: 'The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; But every one who is in a hurry [hurries] only to lack.'

🔗Chapter 22

22:5 — HOTTP and LXX omit verse 6: 'Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.'

🔗Chapter 25

25:20 — as smoke for the eyes is to be placed here per HOTTP with a low certainty rating of D on a scale of A-D.

25:20 — HOTTP and LXX omit the following at the first part of this verse: '[As] one who takes off a garment in cold weather'

25:27 — Hebrew uncertain; literally, "and searching out their honor is honor." Others read, "nor is it honorable to search out things too difficult."

🔗Chapter 29

29:21 — Hebrew uncertain; or, will have him become a son (or heir) at the last. For the main-text rendering, see Nili Samet, who argues that מָנוֹן means "degenerate, decadent" ("The Lexical Enigma of מָנוֹן and the Problem of Dating the Hezekian Collection," ZAW 128.3 [2016]: 419-432, doi:10.1515/zaw-2016-0026).