Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
WEB
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
YLT
Better is an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.
DBT
Better is a meal of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred therewith.
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.