But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.
WEB
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
YLT
And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!
DBT
but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
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.