Text -- Proverbs 31:24 (NET)

31:24 She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 31:24

¹ tn The first word of the fifteenth line begins with ס (samek), the fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

sn The poet did not think it strange or unworthy for a woman of this stature to be a businesswoman engaged in an honest trade. In fact, weaving of fine linens was a common trade for women in the ancient world.

² tn Heb “to the Canaanites.” These are the Phoenician traders that survived the wars and continued to do business down to the exile.