4:8 Esteem her highly 1 and she will exalt you;
she will honor you if you embrace her.
6:9 How long, you sluggard, will you lie there?
When will you rise from your sleep? 2
1 tn The verb is the Pilpel imperative from סָלַל (salal, “to lift up; to cast up”). So the imperative means “exalt her; esteem her highly; prize her.”
2 sn The use of the two rhetorical questions is designed to rebuke the lazy person in a forceful manner. The sluggard is spending too much time sleeping.