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Proverbs: collection 23

Segment A


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23.1

1-4.
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23.2

5-9. (cf. 6.1.01.125, 6.1.14.41, 6.1.22: l. 33)
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My husband picks the bones from the fish for me. …… is not in the desert.


23.3

10-13.
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23.4

14-15.
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Segment B


23.6

1-2.
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23.7

3-12. (cf. 6.1.01.153, 6.1.01.159, 6.1.02.62, 6.1.02.142, 6.1.03.9, 6.1.16.b4-5, 6.1.22: ll. 26-27, 6.1.25.7) A …… shepherd's sex appeal is his testicles (?); a gardener's is his hair. …… a waterskin. He who does not support a wife, and who does not support a son. Although the dishonest man was unable to build his own house, he came to serve as a construction worker at my friend's house. A dishonest man chases after women's genitals; an unreliable man has two sickles. A house built by a righteous man is destroyed by a treacherous man.


23.8

13-19. No one walks together with him or directs their steps towards him. Life {passes him by like water} {(1 ms. has instead:) eludes him just as he avoids others}. He is dear to no just man, {plague prevails over him} {(1 ms. has instead:) life is not given to him}. Like a worthless penny, {……; no one ……} {(1 ms. has instead:) he is thrown away; no one cares about him}. He is clothed with a garment as if a heavy punishment were assigned to him. {Who is he? His name? A man sleeping with someone's wife.} {(1 ms. has instead:) Who is he? He is a man who slept with someone's wife.}


23.9

20-21. (cf. 6.1.01.128, 6.1.22: ll. 146-147, 6.2.3: UET 6/2 210) In the sky there is the raven, on the earth there is the mongoose; and in the desert a lion in its den; my husband (?), where shall I go?
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Segment C


23.14

1-4.
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23.15

5-6.
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23.16

7-10.
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23.17

11-12.
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23.18

13-18. (cf. 6.1.19.c7, 6.1.21.c1, 6.1.24.8) A man's waterskin is his life. A man's sandals are his eyes. A man's wife is his ……. A man's son is his protective shade. A man's daughter is his eager servant (?). A man's daughter-in-law is his policeman.


23.19

19-20.
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Revision history

21.xi.2000: GZ, editor: adapting translation
07.xii.2000: JAB, editor: proofreading
10.xii.2000: GZ, editor: SGML tagging
06.xi.2002: GC, editor: minor corrections
16.xii.2002: GC, editor: SGML tagging
20.vi.2003: JE, editor: web publication
01.vi.2003: GC/JE, editor/technical developer: XML/TEI conversion

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