With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWith the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,
With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
- Author
- David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
- Date
- Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.