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Old 11-16-2010, 04:53 PM
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Re: The Proverbs 11 Thread
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Originally Posted by rgcraig View Post
I like how (The Message) puts it.

30 A good life is a fruit-bearing tree;
a violent life destroys souls.
That's based on a variant textual reading

NET bible commentary:An alternate textual tradition reads חָמָס (khamas) "violent" (reflected in the LXX and Syriac) and refers to taking away lives: "but the one who takes away lives (= kills people) is violent" (cf. NAB, NRSV). The textual variant was caused by orthographic confusion of ס (samek) and כ (kaf), and metathesis of מ (mem) between the 2nd and 3rd consonants. If the parallelism is synonymous, the MT reading fits; if the parallelism is antithetical, the alternate tradition fits. See D. C. Snell, "'Taking Souls' in Pro_11:30," VT 33 (1083): 362-65.
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