Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
WEB
Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
YLT
Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
DBT
Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
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.