Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.
WEB
Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
YLT
Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.
DBT
Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence.
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.