Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWEB
Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
DBT
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
ASV
Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
YLT
Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.
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.