PROV 31:12 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

31:12 OSHB note: We agree with both BHS 1997 and BHQ on an unexpected reading.

Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Ἐνεργεῖ γὰρ τῷ ἀνδρὶ εἰς ἀγαθὰ πάντα τὸν βίον.
(Energei gar tōi andri eis agatha panta ton bion. )

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE She does him good, and not harm,
⇔ all the days of her life.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET She brings him good and not evil
⇔ all the days of her life.

LSV She has done him good, and not evil,
All [the] days of her life.

FBV She brings him good, not evil, all her life.

T4T She never does anything that would harm him;
⇔ she does good things for him all the days of her life.

LEB • She does him good, but not harm all the days of her life.

BBE She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.

Moff she brings him profit and no loss,
⇔ from first to last.

JPS She doeth him good and not evil all the days of her life.

ASV She doeth him good and not evil
⇔ All the days of her life.

DRA She will render him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.

YLT She hath done him good, and not evil, All days of her life.

Drby She doeth him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.

RV She doeth him good and not evil all the days of her life.
(She doth/does him good and not evil all the days of her life. )

SLT She rewarded him good and not evil all the days of her life.

Wbstr She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

KJB-1769 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

KJB-1611 She will doe him good, and not euill, all the dayes of her life.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps She wyll do hym good, and not euill, all the dayes of her lyfe.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Gnva She will doe him good, and not euill all the dayes of her life.
(She will do him good, and not evil all the days of her life. )

Cvdl She wil do him good & not euel all ye dayes of hir life.
(She will do him good and not evil all ye/you_all days of her life.)

Wycl Sche schal yelde to hym good, and not yuel, in alle the daies of hir lijf.
(She shall yield to him good, and not evil, in all the days of her life.)

Luth Sie tut ihm Liebes und kein Leides sein Leben lang.
(They/She does him love(n)s and no/not suffering be life long.)

ClVg Reddet ei bonum, et non malum, omnibus diebus vitæ suæ.[fn]
(Reddet to_him good, and not/no evil, to_all days of_life his/her_own. )

31.12 Reddet ei bonum et non malum. Reddet anima Christo bonum, etc., usque ad cui simile, serviamus illi, etc.

31.12 Reddet to_him good and not/no evil. Reddet the_soul to_Christ/Messiah good, etc., until to to_whom simile, serviamus them, etc.

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 31:10–31: This poem describes a capable wife who has good character

In Hebrew, this section is arranged in the form of an acrostic poem. Each of its twenty-two verses begins with a different letter, following the normal order of the Hebrew alphabet. The poem praises the character and abilities of an ideal wife. After an introduction that describes her value (vv. 10–12), the poem describes her activities and achievements in various areas (vv. 13–27). It concludes with praise by her family (vv. 28–29) and all the people (vv. 30–31). The last two verses also serve as the poet’s final conclusion. They summarize what is truly important in an ideal wife.Waltke (page 515) says that the final two verses are praise “by all.” Murphy (page 245) agrees that the “praise” in the final two verses is the “goal or purpose of the poem.”

Some other headings for this section are:

A good wife with many abilities

Description of a Worthy Woman (NASB)

A truly good wife (CEV)

Paragraph 31:10–12

This introductory paragraph describes the value of the ideal wife in two ways:

She is a woman who is both capable and good. Such a woman is hard to find and is extremely valuable (v. 10).
She benefits her husband in many ways (vv. 11–12).

31:12

She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.

All the days of her life she does nothing to harm him. Instead, everything she does benefits him.
She always does things that improve the life of her husband. She never does anything that makes his life bad/unpleasant.

She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life: The word that the BSB translates as brings is more literally “repays” or “rewards.”BDB #1580, TWOT #360. Fox (page 893) suggests that she does these good things in “response to…her husband’s choosing her as a wife.” It means that she does good things for her husband and treats him well. The phrase not harm emphasizes that she does only what is good and beneficial, nothing that is bad or harmful. Some other ways to translate this verse are:

Every day of her life, she does what is best for him, never anything harmful… (VOICE)

As long as she lives, she does him good and never harm. (GNT)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

ט֣וֹב וְ⁠לֹא־רָ֑ע

good and=not harm

See how you translated the abstract nouns good in [11:27](../11/27.md) and evil in [1:16](../01/16.md).

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet

ט֣וֹב וְ⁠לֹא־רָ֑ע

good and=not harm

The expressionsgood and not evil mean the same thing. Lemuel’s mother is using the two expressions together for emphasis. If it would be clearer for your readers, you could express the emphasis with a single phrase. Alternate translation: “extremely good”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

חַיֶּֽי⁠ה

her_life_of,of

See how you translated the abstract noun life in [10:16](../10/16.md).

Parallel PROV 31:12

Section 31:10–31: This poem describes a capable wife who has good character

Paragraph 31:10–12

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