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For the emendation אוֹנָם in place of the MT's plural א֝וֹנִ֗ים, see the "their labors/pains" in the LXX (τῶν πόνων αὐτῶν); TgPs (צעריהון); "their strenth" in Symmachus (δυνάμεως αὐτῶν); and "their children" in the Syr. (ܝܠܕܗܘܢ). A number of Hebrew manuscripts may also read אונם (see de-Rossi, Variae Lectiones, vol. 4, 54). The preferred reading (as the MT), however, is found in Hebr. (albeit singular) principium partus "first born"; and "of pains" in Aquila's λυπῶν and Quinta/Sexta's ὀδύνων (<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_1173/">https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_1173/</a>).

For the suffixed-form, cf. the NJPS "the firstfruits of their vigor" (see also the ESV; REB).

The plural אוֹנִים is unambiguously attested in Isa 40:26, 29 and Prov 11:7, so does not pose a grammatical problem for the MT here, of which the Hebrew manuscript evidence is otherwise very strong across both the larger Tiberian Codices and the Babylonian manuscripts.

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 |Text=For the emendation אוֹנָם in place of the MT's plural א֝וֹנִ֗ים, see the "their labors/pains" in the LXX (τῶν πόνων αὐτῶν); TgPs (צעריהון); "their strenth" in Symmachus (δυνάμεως αὐτῶν); and "their children" in the Syr. (ܝܠܕܗܘܢ). A number of Hebrew manuscripts may also read אונם (see de-Rossi, Variae Lectiones, vol. 4, 54). The preferred reading (as the MT), however, is found in Hebr. (albeit singular) principium partus "first born"; and "of pains" in Aquila's λυπῶν and Quinta/Sexta's ὀδύνων (<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_1173/">https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_1173/</a>).