Discovery BoxProverbs 27:27 
Context27:27 And there will be enough goat’s milk for your food, 1
for the food of your household,
and for the sustenance 2 of your servant girls.
Proverbs 31:15
Context31:15 She also gets up 3 while it is still night,
and provides food 4 for her household and a portion 5 to her female servants.
1 sn This part of the proverb shows the proper interplay between human labor and divine provision. It teaches people to take care of what they have because it will not last forever.
2 tn Heb “life”; KJV, NAB “maintenance”; NRSV “nourishment.”
3 tn The first word of the sixth line begins with ו (vav), the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
4 sn The word for “food” is טֶרֶף (teref, “prey”; KJV “meat”), another word that does not normally fit the domestic scene. This word also is used in a similar way in Ps 111:5, which says the
5 sn The word חֹק (khoq) probably means “allotted portion of food” as before, but some suggest it means the task that is allotted to the servants, meaning that the wise woman gets up early enough to give out the work assignments (Tg. Prov 31:15, RSV, NRSV, TEV, NLT). That is possible, but seems an unnecessary direction for the line to take. Others, however, simply wish to delete this last colon, leaving two cola and not three, but that is unwarranted.
