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OET (OET-LV) And_now Oh_YHWH god_of_my you you_have_made_king DOM servant_of_your in_place_of Dāvid father_of_my and_I am_a_lad young not I_know to_go_out and_come_in.
OET (OET-RV) So now, Yahweh my god, you yourself have caused your servant to reign in place of my father David, but I’m still young—I don’t really know much about anything.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / pronouns
your servant
(Some words not found in UHB: and=now YHWH God_of,my you(ms) made_~_king DOM servant_of,your below/instead_of Dāvid father_of,my and,I child little not know go_out and,come_in )
Solomon speaks as if he is another person to show respect to Yahweh. Alternate translation: “me”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
I am only a little child
(Some words not found in UHB: and=now YHWH God_of,my you(ms) made_~_king DOM servant_of,your below/instead_of Dāvid father_of,my and,I child little not know go_out and,come_in )
Solomon is saying that he is like a child who does not know as much as a father.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
I do not know how to go out or come in
(Some words not found in UHB: and=now YHWH God_of,my you(ms) made_~_king DOM servant_of,your below/instead_of Dāvid father_of,my and,I child little not know go_out and,come_in )
This is an idiom that means Solomon does not know how to govern as king. Alternate translation: “I do not know how to be the king” or “I do not know the right way to do things as king”
3:4-15 God’s gift of wisdom to Solomon is narrated as a chiasm (a symmetrical arrangement in which sections A and B are mirrored by sections B’ and A’), drawing the focus in on Solomon’s transaction with the Lord: A: While he sacrificed at Gibeon . . . the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream (3:4-5). B: Solomon prayed for wisdom to govern his people equitably and efficiently (3:6-9). B’: The Lord favorably answered his request and granted additional blessings (3:10-14). A’: Solomon awoke from the dream and offered additional sacrifices to the Lord (3:15).
OET (OET-LV) And_now Oh_YHWH god_of_my you you_have_made_king DOM servant_of_your in_place_of Dāvid father_of_my and_I am_a_lad young not I_know to_go_out and_come_in.
OET (OET-RV) So now, Yahweh my god, you yourself have caused your servant to reign in place of my father David, but I’m still young—I don’t really know much about anything.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.