Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;
WEB
if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,
YLT
For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,
DBT
yea, if thou criest after discernment [and] liftest up thy voice to understanding;
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.