That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their treasuries.
WEB
bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.
YLT
To cause my lovers to inherit substance, Yea, their treasures I fill.
DBT
that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasuries.
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.