Proverbs 9:3-4

9:3 She has sent out her female servants;

she calls out on the highest places of the city.

9:4 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,”

she says to those who lack understanding.


tn The text uses two synonymous terms in construct to express the superlative degree.

tn Heb “lacking of heart she says to him.” The pronominal suffix is a resumptive pronoun, meaning, “she says to the lacking of heart.”

tn Heb “him.”

tn Heb “heart”; cf. NIV “to those who lack judgment.”