The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; And the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
WEB
What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
YLT
The feared thing of the wicked it meeteth him, And the desire of the righteous is given.
DBT
The fear of a wicked [man], it shall come upon him; but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
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.