Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her bread from afar.
WEB
She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
YLT
She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread.
DBT
She is like the merchants' ships: she bringeth her food from afar;
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.