Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
WEB
Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
YLT
Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'
DBT
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my 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.