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The Greek Septuagint translation of Proverbs often includes language not found in the Hebrew text, introducing parallel or clarifying thoughts. The differences highlight how the Greek translation expands its source to clarify or intensify meaning.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Proverbs 2:21
Hebrew Bible
18 For she has set her house by death and her paths by the place of the departed spirits. 19 None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life. 20 So you will walk in the way of good people and will keep on the paths of the righteous. 21 For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
Date: 600–201 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX Proverbs 2:21
Septuagint
18 For she has fixed her house near death, and guided her wheels near Hades with the giants. 19 None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended by the years of life. 20 For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy. 21 The kind shall be inhabitants of the earth, and the innocent shall be left in it; for the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it.
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... 2:213. ὅτι εὐθεῖς κατασκηνώσουσι γῆν, “because the upright will dwell in the land.” In Rahlfs these words are preceded by 2:21: χρηστοὶ ἔσονται οἰκήτορες γῆς, ἄκακοι δὲ ὑπολειφθήσονται ἐν αὐτῇ,“the kind will be inhabitants of the earth, and the guileless will be left in it.” The effect of the omission of these two cola in B is that the reason given in the ὅτι-clause of 2:21 now applies to the preceding verse, which makes little sense in the context ..."
Albert M. Wolters, Septuagint Commentary Series: Proverbs (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 134.
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