Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.
WEB
My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
YLT
And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.
DBT
and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.
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.