11:4 Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, 7
but righteousness delivers from mortal danger. 8
2:20 At that time 9 men will throw
their silver and gold idols,
which they made for themselves to worship, 10
into the caves where rodents and bats live, 11
30:22 You will desecrate your silver-plated idols 12
and your gold-plated images. 13
You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag,
saying to them, “Get out!”
1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them
in the day of the Lord’s angry judgment.
The whole earth 14 will be consumed by his fiery wrath. 15
Indeed, 16 he will bring terrifying destruction 17 on all who live on the earth.” 18
1 tn Heb “they ate and drank.”
2 tn Heb “and they hid [it].”
3 tn Heb “and they took from there.”
4 tn Heb “went after.”
5 tn Heb “and look, all the road was full of clothes and equipment that Syria had thrown away in their haste.”
6 tn Or “messengers.”
7 sn The “day of wrath” refers to divine punishment in this life (R. N. Whybray, Proverbs [CBC], 67; e.g., also Job 21:30; Ezek 7:19; Zeph 1:18). Righteousness and not wealth is more valuable in anticipating judgment.
8 tn Heb “from death.”
9 tn Or “in that day” (KJV).
10 tn Or “bow down to.”
11 tn Heb “to the shrews and to the bats.” On the meaning of חֲפַרְפָּרָה (khafarparah, “shrew”), see HALOT 341 s.v. חֲפַרְפָּרָה. The BHS text as it stands (לַחְפֹּר פֵּרוֹת, perot lakhpor), makes no sense. Based on Theodotion’s transliteration and a similar reading in the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa, most scholars suggest that the MT mistakenly divided a noun (a hapax legomenon) that should be translated “moles,” “shrews,” or “rodents.”
12 tn Heb “the platings of your silver idols.”
13 tn Heb “the covering of your gold image.”
14 tn Or “land” (cf. NEB). This same word also occurs at the end of the present verse.
15 tn Or “passion”; traditionally, “jealousy.”
16 tn Or “for.”
17 tn Heb “complete destruction, even terror, he will make.”
18 tn It is not certain where the
19 tn Grk “a man,” but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used in a generic sense here to refer to both men and women.