Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Also to punish the righteous is not good, Norto smite the noble fortheiruprightness.
WEB
It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.
YLT
Also, to fine the righteous is not good, To smite nobles for uprightness.
DBT
To punish a righteous [man] is not good, nor to strike nobles because of [their] uprightness.
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.