Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
WEB
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
YLT
And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
DBT
and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
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.