PRO 9:3 Parallel Verse View

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

Key: khaki:verbs.
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 Ἀπέστειλε τοὺς ἑαυτῆς δούλους, συγκαλοῦσα μετὰ ὑψηλοῦ κηρύγματος ἐπὶ κρατῆρα, λέγουσα,
(Apesteile tous heautaʸs doulous, sugkalousa meta hupsaʸlou kaʸrugmatos epi krataʸra, legousa, )

BrTr She has sent forth her servants, calling with a loud proclamation to the feast, saying,

ULT She has sent out her young women,
⇔ she calls out on the tops of the heights of the city.

UST What is wise is like a woman who sends out her maids to invite her dinner guests.
⇔ What is wise is like a woman who cries out at the highest place in the city where everyone can hear her.

BSB She has sent out her maidservants;
⇔ she calls out from the heights of the city.

OEB She has sent forth her maidens to cry
⇔ on the thoroughfares of the city:

WEBBE She has sent out her maidens.
⇔ She cries from the highest places of the city:

WMBB (Same as above)

NET She has sent out her female servants;
⇔ she calls out on the highest places of the city.

LSV She has sent forth her girls,
She cries on the tops of the high places of the city:

FBV She has sent out her servant girls with invitations.[fn] She calls out from the highest places of the town,

9:3 “With invitations”: implied.

T4T It is as though then she sent out her servant women to call out from the highest place in the town,

LEB • [fn] she calls upon the wings of the high places of town,

9:? Or “young maidens”

BBE She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,

Moff No Moff PRO book available

JPS She hath sent forth her maidens, she calleth, upon the highest places of the city:

ASV She hath sent forth her maidens;
⇔ She crieth upon the highest places of the city:

DRA She hath sent her maids to invite to the tower, and to the walls of the city:

YLT She hath sent forth her damsels, She crieth on the tops of the high places of the city:

Drby she hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the summits of the high places of the city,

RV She hath sent forth her maidens, she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

Wbstr She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

KJB-1769 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
(She hath/has sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, )

KJB-1611 She hath sent forth her maidens; she cryeth vpon the highest places of the citie.
(She hath/has sent forth her maidens; she cryeth upon the highest places of the city.)

Bshps She hath sent foorth her maydens to crye vpon the highest place of the citie,
(She hath/has sent forth her maidens to cry upon the highest place of the city,)

Gnva She hath sent forth her maydens and cryeth vpon the highest places of the citie, saying,
(She hath/has sent forth her maidens and cryeth upon the highest places of the city, saying, )

Cvdl She hath sent forth hir maydens to crie vpo the hyest place of the cite:
(She hath/has sent forth her maidens to cry upo the hyest place of the city:)

Wyc He sente hise handmaides, that thei schulden clepe to the tour; and to the wallis of the citee.
(He sent his handmaids, that they should clepe to the tour; and to the wallis of the city.)

Luth und sandte ihre Dirnen aus, zu laden oben auf die Paläste der Stadt:
(and sent their/her Dirnen out, to laden above on the Paläste the/of_the Stadt:)

ClVg Misit ancillas suas ut vocarent ad arcem et ad mœnia civitatis.
(Misit ancillas their_own as vocarent to the_castle and to mœnia of_the_city. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

שָֽׁלְחָ֣ה נַעֲרֹתֶ֣י⁠הָ תִקְרָ֑א

sent_out servant-girls,her calls

In this verse, wisdom is spoken of as if it were a wealthy woman who has servants and calls out in public. See the discussion of such personification in the General Notes for this chapter. Alternate translation: “It is as if wisdom were a woman who has sent out her young women and calls out”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

שָֽׁלְחָ֣ה נַעֲרֹתֶ֣י⁠הָ

sent_out servant-girls,her

Solomon implies that the young women were sent out in order to invite people to the meal that Wisdom had prepared. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “She has sent out her young women to invite people to the meal”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

עַל־גַּ֝פֵּ֗י מְרֹ֣מֵי

on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in wings high_places

See how you translated the similar phrase “the head of the heights” in 8:2.

Parallel PRO 9:3