Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsBind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
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.