Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
WEB
Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
YLT
Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.
DBT
Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
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.