Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
It will be health to thy navel, And marrow to thy bones.
WEB
This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
YLT
Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones.
DBT
it shall be health for thy navel, and moisture for thy bones.
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.