clothes

The Hebrew and Greek that is translated with “clothes” or similar in English is translated in Enlhet as “crawling-in-stuff” (source: Jacob Loewen in The Bible Translator 1971, p. 169ff. ) and in Noongar as bwoka or “Kangaroo skin” (source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang).

Translation commentary on Proverbs 27:13

This verse is almost identical with 20.16. See there for comments. As the footnotes in Revised Standard Version and other versions indicate, the Hebrew text has “a foreign woman,” where the Vulgate and 20.16 have “foreigners.” Hebrew Old Testament Text Project rates the Hebrew text as “B”; a good number of versions, however, follow Revised Standard Version with “foreigners” or “persons unknown” (New Jerusalem Bible).

Quoted with permission from Reyburn, William D. and Fry, Euan McG. A Handbook on Proverbs. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2000. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .