Sunday, August 31, 2025

Proverbs 28:19

A few months ago, I read Proverbs 28 in the ESV and noticed a small feature in verse 19:
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
The words plenty and poverty alliterate and rhyme, and since these sounds recur, there's a sense of this great degree (although the phrase actually describes a lack).  Of the translations I referenced, this is unique to the ESV.