Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)
WEB
Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.
YLT
Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --
DBT
now without, now in the broadways, — and she lieth in wait at every corner.
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.