³ tn Grk “of more value.”

¹ tn Or “of what value.”

⁷ tn Grk “equal in value/honor.”

² tn Heb “the silver of the conversion value.”

² tn Or “all that we valued has become a ruin.”

² tn Heb “and the priest shall cause him to be valued.”

¹ tn Heb “your conversion value shall be [for] the male.”

² tn Heb “a man according to my value,” i.e., “a person such as I.”

¹ tn Heb “a conversion value shall be to the mouth of its seed.”

¹ tn Heb “and the priest shall cause it to be valued.” See the note on v. 8 above.

² sn In company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart alludes to the value of the community of believers for the development of Christian virtues.

¹ sn This medicinal ointment (Heb “balm”) consisted of the gum or resin from a tree of uncertain identification thought to have medicinal value (see also Jer 46:11).

⁵ sn This line expresses that her value (Heb “her price”), like wisdom, is worth more than rubies (e.g., 3:15; 8:11).

³ sn The proverb acknowledges the fact of life, but it also reminds people of the value of gifts in life, especially in business or in politics.

¹ sn To “despise oneself” means to reject oneself as if there was little value. The one who ignores discipline is not interested in improving himself.

³ sn By means of the parallelism, one who rejects discretion is like a swine. If that person has beauty, its value is wasted on and overshadowed by their “piggishness.”

² sn The term “righteousness” here means honesty (cf. TEV). Wealth has limited value even if gained honestly, but honesty delivers from mortal danger.

² tn The Hebrew word קְשִׂיטָה (q^esitah) is generally understood to refer to a unit of money, but the value is unknown.

³ tn The perfect tense with vav consecutive makes the value of this verb equal to an imperfect tense, probably a simple future here.

² tn Here BDAG 552 s.v. κοινός 2 states, “pert. to being of little value because of being common, common, ordinary, profane…b. specifically, of that which is ceremonially impure: Rv 21:27.”