Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
WEB
at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.
YLT
In the twilight--in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.
DBT
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
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.