Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:
WEB
Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
YLT
Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,
DBT
Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man;
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.