Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Be thou not one of them that strike hands, Orof them that are sureties for debts.
WEB
Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
YLT
Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens.
DBT
Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts:
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.