Proverbs Notes
Proverbs 1
a 1:12 Or the grave
b 1:21 Septuagint, Syriac, and Targum read top of the walls; Vulgate reads the head of multitudes.
Proverbs 3
a 3:6 Or make smooth or straight
b 3:8 Literally navel, figurative of the body
c 3:8 Literally drink or refreshment
Proverbs 4
a 4:18 Literally light
Proverbs 5
a 5:5 Or Sheol
Proverbs 6
a 6:5 That is, one who catches birds in a trap or snare
b 6:22 Literally it
c 6:26 Literally a man’s wife, that is, of another
Proverbs 7
a 7:22 Septuagint, Syriac, and Targum read as a dog to bonds; Vulgate reads as a lamb … to bonds.
b 7:27 Or Sheol
Proverbs 8
a 8:16 Masoretic Text, Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read righteousness; Septuagint, Bomberg, and some manuscripts and editions read earth.
b 8:30 A Jewish tradition reads one brought up.
Proverbs 9
a 9:18 Or Sheol
Proverbs 10
a 10:21 Literally heart
Proverbs 11
Proverbs 12
Proverbs 13
a 13:23 Literally what is swept away
Proverbs 14
a 14:14 Literally from above himself
b 14:23 Literally talk of the lips
c 14:29 Literally short of spirit
Proverbs 15
a 15:11 Or Sheol
b 15:11 Hebrew Abaddon
c 15:17 Or vegetables
d 15:24 Or Sheol
e 15:30 Literally fat
Proverbs 16
a 16:5 Literally hand to hand
Proverbs 17
Proverbs 18
a 18:8 A Jewish tradition reads wounds.
b 18:24 Following Greek manuscripts, Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate; Masoretic Text reads may come to ruin.
Proverbs 19
a 19:16 Literally despises, figurative of recklessness or carelessness
b 19:18 Literally to put him to death; a Jewish tradition reads on his crying.
c 19:24 Septuagint and Syriac read bosom; Targum and Vulgate read armpit.
Proverbs 20
a 20:2 Literally fear or terror which is produced by the king’s wrath
b 20:14 Literally evil, evil
c 20:27 Literally the rooms of the belly
d 20:30 Literally the rooms of the belly
Proverbs 21
a 21:4 Or lamp
b 21:6 Septuagint reads Pursue vanity on the snares of death; Vulgate reads Is vain and foolish, and shall stumble on the snares of death; Targum reads They shall be destroyed, and they shall fall who seek death.
c 21:7 Literally drag them away
d 21:8 Or The way of a man is perverse and strange
e 21:14 Literally in the bosom
f 21:29 Qere and Septuagint read understands.
Proverbs 23
Proverbs 24
a 24:28 Septuagint and Vulgate read Do not deceive.
Proverbs 26
a 26:10 The Hebrew is difficult; ancient and modern translators differ greatly.
Proverbs 27
Proverbs 29
a 29:10 Literally soul
b 29:11 Literally spirit
c 29:18 Or prophetic vision
d 29:24 Literally hears the adjuration
Proverbs 30
a 30:16 Or Sheol
b 30:26 Or hyraxes
c 30:28 Or lizard
d 30:31 Exact identity unknown
e 30:31 A Jewish tradition reads a king against whom there is no uprising.
Proverbs 31