1 Samuel 2:5
New English Translation
5 The well fed hire themselves out to earn food,
but the hungry no longer lack.[a]
Even[b] the barren woman has given birth to seven,[c]
but the one with many children has declined.[d]
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 2:5 tn By implication these lines refer to those formerly well-fed and those formerly hungry.
- 1 Samuel 2:5 tc Against BHS but with the MT, the preposition (עַד, ʿad) should be taken with what follows rather than with what precedes. For this sense of the preposition see Job 25:5.
- 1 Samuel 2:5 sn The number seven is used here in an ideal sense. Elsewhere in the OT having seven children is evidence of fertility as a result of God’s blessing on the family. See, for example, Jer 15:9, Ruth 4:15.
- 1 Samuel 2:5 tn Or “languished.”
1 Samuel 2:5
King James Version
5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
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1 Samuel 2:5
New King James Version
5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
And the hungry have ceased to hunger.
Even (A)the barren has borne seven,
And (B)she who has many children has become feeble.
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