Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
To call to them that pass by, Who go right on their ways:
WEB
calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight.
YLT
To call to those passing by the way, Who are going straight on their paths.
DBT
to call passers-by who go right on their ways:
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.