{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro023_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro023_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro023_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/pro023.htm","summary":"This is a scholarly parallel-text edition of Proverbs 23 (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament), presenting the chapter simultaneously in four versions: the King James Version (KJV), the Septuagint (Greek, abbreviated Sep), the Masoretic Hebrew text (Tan), and the Latin Vulgate (Vul). The chapter is a collection of wisdom instructions addressed from a father-figure to a son, covering table etiquette with rulers, warnings against greed and the pursuit of wealth, respect for parents, proper discipline of children, and extended warnings against drunkenness and sexual immorality. A notable and vivid passage near the chapter's end personifies wine as a seductive but ultimately destructive force \u2014 beautiful in the cup, deadly as a serpent's bite \u2014 culminating in the image of a drunkard insensible to his own beatings, waking only to seek more drink. The parallel-column format, with Strong's concordance numbers embedded in the KJV column, marks this as a tool for comparative biblical scholarship, allowing readers to examine textual variants and translation choices across the major ancient witnesses to the Hebrew scriptures.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 23","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":1831}