31:24 She makes linen garments 1 and sells them,
and supplies the merchants 2 with sashes.
1 tn The first word of the fifteenth line begins with ס (samek), the fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
sn The poet did not think it strange or unworthy for a woman of this stature to be a businesswoman engaged in an honest trade. In fact, weaving of fine linens was a common trade for women in the ancient world.
2 tn Heb “to the Canaanites.” These are the Phoenician traders that survived the wars and continued to do business down to the exile.