For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothea manwith rags.
WEB
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
YLT
For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.
DBT
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.
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.