Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
A man’s goings are of Jehovah; How then can man understand his way?
WEB
A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?
YLT
From Jehovah are the steps of a man, And man--how understandeth he his way?
DBT
The steps of a man are from Jehovah; and how can a man understand his own way?
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.