Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
WEB
None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
YLT
None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
DBT
none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
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.