His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
KJV
Parallel translations
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4 additional translationsASV
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
WEB
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
YLT
His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
DBT
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
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.