Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:
WEB
my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.
YLT
My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,
DBT
— my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.