{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro001_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro001_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro001_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/pro001.htm","summary":"This is a scholarly comparative text presenting the first chapter of the biblical book of Proverbs in four parallel versions: the King James Version (English), the Septuagint (ancient Greek), the Tanakh (Hebrew), and the Latin Vulgate. The chapter opens Proverbs' programmatic statement that \"the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,\" then moves through two distinct sections: a father's warning to his son against joining violent criminals who lie in wait for blood, and a personification of Wisdom as a woman crying aloud in public squares and city gates, calling the naive to repentance. The Wisdom figure's speech is notably severe \u2014 she announces that those who rejected her counsel will face sudden calamity while she laughs at their destruction, and will cry out to her in vain.\n\nThe distinctive value of this presentation lies in the side-by-side comparison of the four textual traditions, which reveals meaningful translation and interpretive divergences: the Septuagint notably expands verse 7 to add \"piety toward God is the beginning of perception,\" and its rendering of the Wisdom speech (vv. 20\u201333) differs in several specifics from the Hebrew and KJV. The KJV text includes Strong's concordance numbers embedded inline, making it useful for word-level lexical study. This is reference material for biblical scholars, seminarians, or serious students of scripture interested in how a foundational wisdom text reads across its major ancient and early-modern transmission streams.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 1","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":1649}