Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
So shall they be life unto thy soul, And grace to thy neck.
WEB
They will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.
YLT
And they are life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
DBT
so shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace unto thy neck.
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.