Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king, And stand not in the place of great men:
WEB
Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;
YLT
Honour not thyself before a king, And in the place of the great stand not.
DBT
Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of the great;
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.