Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
WEB
Ears that hear and eyes that see— the LORD has made them both.
YLT
A hearing ear, and a seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
DBT
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
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.