Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.
WEB
or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.
YLT
Lest Jehovah see, and it be evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.
DBT
lest Jehovah see it, and it be evil in his sight, and he turn away his anger from him.
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.