Text -- Proverbs 31:7 (NET)

31:7 let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 31:7

¹ tn The subjects and suffixes are singular (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB). Most other English versions render this as plural for stylistic reasons, in light of the preceding context.

² tn The king was not to “drink and forget”; the suffering are to “drink and forget.”