Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
There are four things which are little upon the earth, But they are exceeding wise:
WEB
Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:
YLT
Four are little ones of earth, And they are made wiser than the wise:
DBT
There are four [things] little upon the earth, and they are exceeding wise:
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.