Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity;
WEB
and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.
YLT
For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
DBT
to receive the instruction of wisdom, righteousness and judgment, and equity;
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.