Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
WEB
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
YLT
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
DBT
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
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.