Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
WEB
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
YLT
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
DBT
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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.