Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
WEB
To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
YLT
To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.
DBT
To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
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.