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Proverbs 1:17

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1:17 Surely it is futile to spread 1  a net

in plain sight of 2  any bird, 3 

Proverbs 23:5

Context

23:5 When you gaze upon riches, 4  they are gone,

for they surely make wings for themselves,

and fly off into the sky like an eagle! 5 

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[1:17]  1 tn Heb “for the net to be spread out.” The Pual participle of זָרָה (zarah) means “to be spread” (HALOT 280 s.v. I זרה pu.1). The subject of this verbal use of the participle is the noun הָרָשֶׁת (harashet, “the net”). It is futile for the net to be spread out in plain view of birds.

[1:17]  2 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[1:17]  3 tn Heb “all of the possessors of wings.”

[23:5]  4 tc The Kethib is הֲתָעוּף (hatauf), “do your eyes fly [light] on it?” The Qere is the Hiphil, הֲתָעִיף (hataif) “do you cause your eyes to fly on it?” But the line is difficult. The question may be indirect: If you cast your eyes on it, it is gone – when you think you are close, it slips away.

[23:5]  5 sn This seventh saying warns people not to expend all their energy trying to get rich because riches are fleeting (cf. Instruction of Amememope, chap. 7, 9:10-11 which says, “they have made themselves wings like geese and have flown away to heaven”). In the ancient world the symbol of birds flying away signified fleeting wealth.



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