31 Heb “Are you better than Thebes?”
32 Heb “No-Amon.” The name is transliterated by , ; many other English versions employ the equivalent “Thebes.”
33 The relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher) is functioning in a possessive sense: “whose” (Job 37:17; Ps 95:5; Isa 5:28; 49:23; Jer 31:32; see 4).
34 The consonantal form חיל is vocalized in the as חֵיל (khel, “rampart”). The translation ἡ ἀρξή (hē arxē, “strength”) reflects confusion between the relatively rare חֵיל and the more common חַיִל (khayil, “strength”); see .
35 Heb “from (the) sea.” The form should be emended to מַיִם (mayim, “water”). This is a figurative description of the Nile River: It functioned like a fortress wall for Thebes.

In other versions

Are you better than Thebes

that sat by the Nile,

with water around her,

her rampart a sea,

and water her wall?

Are you better than Thebes,

situated on the Nile,

with water around her?

The river was her defense,

the waters her wall.

Are you better than Thebes

that sat along the Nile

with water surrounding her,

whose rampart was the sea,

the river her wall?

Are you any better than the city of Thebes,

situated on the Nile River, surrounded by water?

She was protected by the river on all sides,

walled in by water.

Are you better than Thebes?

She who sits at the Nile, surrounded by her waters,

her rampart was the sea and water was her wall.

Art thou better than populous No,

That was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it,

Whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?

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