[1] 1:23 Or Will you turn away at my reproof?
[1] 2:16 Hebrew strange
[2] 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman
[3] 2:18 Hebrew to the Rephaim
[1] 3:4 Or repute
[2] 3:8 Hebrew navel
[3] 3:8 Or medicine
[4] 3:25 Hebrew storm
[5] 3:27 Hebrew Do not withhold good from its owners
[6] 3:34 Or grace
[7] 3:35 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
[1] 4:1 Hebrew know
[2] 4:22 Hebrew his
[3] 4:26 Or Make level
[1] 5:3 Hebrew strange; also verse 20
[2] 5:3 Hebrew palate
[3] 5:5 Hebrew lay hold of
[4] 5:19 Hebrew be led astray; also verse 20
[5] 5:20 Hebrew a foreign woman
[6] 5:21 Or makes level
[1] 6:3 Or humble yourself
[2] 6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter
[3] 6:13 Hebrew scrapes
[4] 6:22 Hebrew it; three times in this verse
[5] 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
[6] 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman
[7] 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
[8] 6:26 Hebrew a man's wife
[1] 7:5 Hebrew strange
[2] 7:5 Hebrew the foreign woman
[3] 7:10 Hebrew guarded in heart
[4] 7:14 Hebrew peace offerings
[5] 7:22 Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew as an anklet for the discipline of a fool
[1] 8:16 Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint govern the earth
[2] 8:22 Or fathered; Septuagint created
[3] 8:22 Hebrew way
[4] 8:28 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
[5] 8:30 Or daily filled with
[1] 9:6 Or Leave the company of the simple
[2] 9:9 Hebrew lacks instruction
[3] 9:13 Or full of simpleness
[4] 9:18 Hebrew Rephaim
[1] 10:22 Or and toil adds nothing to it
[1] 11:7 Or of his strength, or of iniquity
[2] 11:27 Or acceptance
[1] 12:17 Hebrew breathes out
[2] 12:26 Or The righteous chooses his friends carefully
[3] 12:27 Or but diligence is precious wealth
[1] 13:5 Or stench
[2] 13:11 Or by fraud
[3] 13:15 Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); Hebrew is rugged, or is an enduring rut
[4] 13:21 Or Evil
[5] 13:24 Or who loves him disciplines him early
[1] 14:3 Or In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride
[2] 14:9 Hebrew but among the upright is acceptance
[3] 14:12 Hebrew ways of death
[4] 14:16 Or fears [the LORD]
[5] 14:22 Or show
[6] 14:30 Or healing
[7] 14:30 Or jealousy
[8] 14:33 Or Wisdom rests quietly in the heart of a man of understanding, but makes itself known in the midst of fools
[1] 15:4 Or healing
[2] 15:7 Or the hearts of fools are not steadfast
[3] 15:30 Hebrew makes fat
[1] 16:20 Or to a matter
[2] 16:25 Hebrew ways of death
[3] 16:27 Hebrew what is on his lips
[4] 16:30 Hebrew to plan
[1] 17:1 Hebrew sacrifices
[2] 17:23 Hebrew a bribe from the bosom
[1] 18:5 Hebrew to lift the face of
[1] 19:2 Or A soul
[2] 19:6 Or of a noble
[3] 19:7 The meaning of the Hebrew sentence is uncertain
[1] 20:1 Or will not become wise
[2] 20:10 Or Two kinds of; also verse 23
[3] 20:11 Or Even a child can dissemble in his actions, though his conduct seems pure and upright
[4] 20:16 Or for an adulteress (compare 27:13)
[5] 20:19 Hebrew with one who is simple in his lips
[6] 20:27 Hebrew breath
[1] 21:4 Or the plowing
[2] 21:6 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Latin; most Hebrew manuscripts vapor for those who seek death
[3] 21:14 Hebrew a bribe in the bosom
[4] 21:29 Or establishes
[1] 22:4 Or The reward for humility is the fear of the LORD, riches and honor and life
[2] 22:9 Hebrew good
[3] 22:14 Hebrew strange
[1] 23:1 Or who
[2] 23:6 Hebrew whose eye is evil
[3] 23:7 Or for as he calculates in his soul, so is he
[4] 23:16 Hebrew My kidneys
[5] 23:20 Hebrew those who drink too much wine
[6] 23:26 Or delight in
[7] 23:27 Hebrew a foreign woman
[8] 23:34 Or of the rigging
[9] 23:35 Hebrew lacks you will say
[1] 24:9 Or scheming
[1] 25:8 Hebrew or else
[2] 25:27 The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain
[1] 26:10 Or hires a fool or passersby
[2] 26:23 By revocalization; Hebrew silver of dross
[1] 27:9 Or and so does the sweetness of a friend that comes from his earnest counsel
[2] 27:13 Hebrew a foreign woman; a slight emendation yields (compare Vulgate; see also 20:16) foreigners
[3] 27:16 Hebrew to meet with
[4] 27:17 Hebrew sharpens the face of another
[1] 28:8 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor
[2] 28:17 Hebrew until the pit
[3] 28:22 Hebrew A man whose eye is evil
[1] 29:4 Or who taxes heavily
[2] 29:10 Or but the upright seek his soul
[3] 29:18 Or the people are discouraged
[4] 29:21 The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered his heir is uncertain
[1] 30:1 Or Jakeh, the man of Massa
[2] 30:1 Revocalization; Hebrew The man declares to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal
[3] 30:11 Hebrew There is a generation; also verses 12, 13, 14
[4] 30:15 Or “Give, give,” they cry
[5] 30:31 Or the magpie, or the greyhound; Hebrew girt-of-loins
[6] 30:31 Or against whom there is no rising up
[1] 31:2 Hebrew What, my son?
[2] 31:6 Hebrew those bitter in soul
[3] 31:8 Hebrew are sons of passing away
[4] 31:10 Verses 10–31 are an acrostic poem, each verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet
[5] 31:17 Hebrew She girds her loins
[6] 31:21 Or in double thickness