Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Be not wise in thine own eyes; Fear Jehovah, and depart from evil:
WEB
Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
YLT
Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.
DBT
Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear Jehovah, and depart from evil:
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.