Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The wise shall inherit glory; But shame shall be the promotion of fools.
WEB
The wise will inherit honor, but fools are held up to shame.
YLT
Honour do the wise inherit, And fools are bearing away shame!
DBT
The wise shall inherit glory; but shame shall be the promotion of the foolish.
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.