Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; And set not thy heart on his destruction.
WEB
Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.
YLT
Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.
DBT
Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; but set not thy soul upon killing him.
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.