Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
WEB
Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.
YLT
Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.
DBT
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
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.