PROV 9:3 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=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 Imagine that this woman has sent out her maids to invite her dinner guests.
⇔ Then she calls out at the highest place in the city where everyone can hear her.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

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 • She has sent her servant girls,[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 she has sent her maidens out to cry,
⇔ on the thoroughfares of the city,

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,
(She hath/has sent forth her maidens, she crieth/cries upon the highest places of the city, )

SLT She sent forth her girls: she will call upon the wings of the heights 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/cries upon the highest places of the city, )

KJB-1611 She hath sent forth her maidens; she cryeth vpon the highest places of the citie.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

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 crieth/cries 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 upon the highest place of the city:)

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

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

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

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 9:1–18: Wisdom and Folly each urge people to follow them

This section summarizes the main themes of chapters 1–8. It contains parallel appeals by Wisdom (9:1–6) and Folly (9:13–18), both personified as women. Both Wisdom and Folly appeal to the same audience, inviting them to come and eat in their homes. Between these two appeals is a summary of two opposite ways to respond to Wisdom (9:7–12). In the center of this paragraph, 9:10 contains a restatement of the first line of 1:7. These key verses mark chapters 1 and 9 as the beginning and end of the first major division of the book.

Some other headings for this section are:

Invitations of Wisdom and of Folly (NIV)

Wisdom and Foolishness each give a feast

Being Wise or Foolish (NCV)

Paragraph 9:1–6

This paragraph describes the preparations that Wisdom makes for a banquet (9:1–3) and the invitations that she sends out to the guests (9:4–6).

9:3a–b

She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out: Grammatically, the pronoun she refers to Wisdom in both clauses. In the context, however, it is clearly the servant women who actually invite people, using Wisdom’s words. In some languages, it may be clearer to make this information explicit. For example:

She has sent her servant women to call out (GNT)

She has sent her servant women to announce her invitation (CEV)

9:3a

She has sent out her maidservants;

She sent her female servants to invite the people to the feast.

She has sent out her maidservants: Wisdom’s maidservants are her “servant women” (GNT) or female servants, whom she has sent to invite the guests.

9:3b

she calls out from the heights of the city.

They go and call from the highest places in the city, saying,

from the heights of the city: This phrase probably refers to the places in the town from which the inhabitants can most easily see and hear the servant women. Here is another way to translate this:

from the highest places in the town (NRSV)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

שָֽׁלְחָ֣ה נַעֲרֹתֶ֣י⁠הָ תִקְרָ֑א

sent_out servants_of,her_female 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 Chapter Introduction. 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 servants_of,her_female

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_of high_places_of

See how you translated the similar phrase “the head of the heights” in [8:2](../08/02.md).

Parallel PROV 9:3

Section 9:1–18: Wisdom and Folly each urge people to follow them

Paragraph 9:1–6

9:3a–b

9:3a

9:3b