{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro030_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro030_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro030_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/pro030.htm","summary":"This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of Proverbs 30 (the \"Words of Agur\") displayed simultaneously across four ancient versions: the King James Version (English), the Septuagint (Greek), the Hebrew Masoretic Text, and the Latin Vulgate. The chapter consists of a wisdom poem attributed to Agur son of Jakeh, who opens with an unusual confession of ignorance \u2014 declaring himself more brutish than any man, lacking wisdom and knowledge of the holy \u2014 before posing a series of rhetorical questions about who has ascended to heaven, gathered the wind, or bound the waters, implicitly pointing to a creator God whose word is pure. The bulk of the text is structured around numerical sayings (\"three things\u2026 yea, four\"), cataloguing insatiable things (Sheol, a barren womb, fire), mysterious things (the way of an eagle in the air, a serpent on rock, a ship at sea, a man with a maiden), socially intolerable things (a servant who becomes king, a fool filled with food), and admirably ordered small creatures (ants, conies, locusts, spiders). A distinctive feature of the presentation is that it makes the Septuagint's notable divergences from the Hebrew immediately visible \u2014 for instance, the LXX renders \"two daughters\" of the leech as \"three daughters\" and replaces \"greyhound\" with \"rooster\" in the majestic-walker list \u2014 making this a useful resource for anyone studying textual transmission and translation variation in the Hebrew Bible.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 30","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":1972}