Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
When pride cometh, then cometh shame; But with the lowly is wisdom.
WEB
When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
YLT
Pride hath come, and shame cometh, And with the lowly is wisdom.
DBT
[When] pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.
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.