Amsal 9:5

9:5 “Come, eat ¹  some of my food,

and drink some of the wine I have mixed. ² 

Amsal 31:7

31:7 let them ³  drink and forget ⁴  their poverty,

and remember their misery no more.

[9:5]  ¹ tn The construction features a cognate accusative (verb and noun from same root). The preposition בּ (bet) has the partitive use “some” (GKC 380 §119.m).

[9:5]  ² tn The final verb actually stands in a relative clause although the relative pronoun is not present; it modifies “wine.”

[9:5]  sn The expressions “eat” and “drink” carry the implied comparison forward; they mean that the simple are to appropriate the teachings of wisdom.

[31:7]  ³ tn The subjects and suffixes are singular (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB). Most other English versions render this as plural for stylistic reasons, in light of the preceding context.

[31:7]  ⁴ tn The king was not to “drink and forget”; the suffering are to “drink and forget.”