Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
WEB
May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
YLT
Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.
DBT
let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
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.