Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
WEB
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
YLT
The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
DBT
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
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.