31:28 Her children rise up 1 and call her blessed,
her husband 2 also praises her:
31:29 “Many 3 daughters 4 have done valiantly, 5
but you surpass them all!”
1 tn The first word of the nineteenth line begins with ק (qof), the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
2 tn The text uses an independent nominative absolute to draw attention to her husband: “her husband, and he praises her.” Prominent as he is, her husband speaks in glowing terms of his noble wife.
3 tn The first word of the twentieth line begins with ר (resh), the twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
4 tn Or “women” (NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
5 tn The word is the same as in v. 10, “noble, valiant.”