Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWEB
For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
YLT
For life they are to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.
DBT
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
ASV
For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their 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.