1Sa 2:5 | NET2full | STEP | The well fed hire themselves out to earn food , but the hungry no longer lack . Even the barren woman has given birth to seven , but the one with many children has declined .

‏ 1 Samuel 2:5

5 The well fed hire themselves out to earn food,
but the hungry no longer lack. ^{▼▼tn By implication these lines refer to those formerly well-fed and those formerly hungry.}
Even ^{▼▼tc Against BHS but with the MT, the preposition (עַד, ʿad) should be taken with what follows rather than with what precedes. For this sense of the preposition see Job 25:5.} the barren woman has given birth to seven, ^{▼▼sn The number seven is used here in an ideal sense. Elsewhere in the OT having seven children is evidence of fertility as a result of God’s blessing on the family. See, for example, Jer 15:9, Ruth 4:15.}
but the one with many children has declined. ^{▼▼tn Or “languished.”}