27:17 what he stores up 1 a righteous man will wear,
and an innocent man will inherit his silver.
31:36 Surely 2 I would wear it proudly 3 on my shoulder,
I would bind 4 it on me like a crown;
1 tn The text simply repeats the verb from the last clause. It could be treated as a separate short clause: “He may store it up, but the righteous will wear it. But it also could be understood as the object of the following verb, “[what] he stores up the righteous will wear.” The LXX simply has, “All these things shall the righteous gain.”
2 tn The clause begins with the positive oath formula, אִם־לֹא (’im-lo’).
3 tn The word “proudly” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied (note the following line).
4 tn This verb is only found in Prov 6:21. But E. Dhorme (Job, 470) suggests that (with metathesis) we have a derivative מַעֲדַנּוֹת (ma’adannot, “bonds; ties”) in 38:31.