Text -- Proverbs 30:7 (NET)

30:7 Two things I ask from you; do not refuse me before I die:

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 30:7

¹ sn Wisdom literature often groups things in twos and fours, or in other numerical arrangements (e.g., Amos 1:3–2:6; Job 5:19; Prov 6:16-19).

² tn Assuming that the contents of vv. 7-9 are a prayer, several English versions have supplied a vocative phrase: “O Lord” (NIV); “O God” (NLT); others have supplied a similar phrase without the vocative “O”: NCV, CEV “Lord”; TEV “God.”