Proverbs 1:13

We will seize ¹  all kinds ²  of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder. ³ 

Job 24:2,3; Pr 1:19; Isa 10:13,14; Jer 22:16,17; Na 2:12; Hag 2:9; Lu 12:15; 1Ti 6:9,10; Re 18:9-16

¹ tn Heb “find.” The use of the verb מָצָא (matsa’, “to find”) is deliberate understatement to rhetorically down-play the heinous act of thievery.

² tn Heb “all wealth of preciousness.”

³ tn The noun שָׁלָל (shalal, “plunder”) functions as an adverbial accusative of material: “with plunder.” This term is normally used for the spoils of war (e.g., Deut 20:14; Josh 7:21; Judg 8:24, 25; 1 Sam 30:20) but here refers to “stolen goods” (so NCV, CEV; e.g., Isa 10:2; Prov 16:19; BDB 1022 s.v. 3). The enticement was to join a criminal gang and adopt a life of crime to enjoy ill-gotten gain (A. Cohen, Proverbs, 4). Cf. NAB, NRSV “booty”; TEV “loot.”