Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 6

This is a scholarly parallel text presenting Proverbs chapter 6 in four versions side by side: the King James Version (with embedded Strong's concordance numbers), the Greek Septuagint (LXX), the Hebrew Masoretic Text, and the Latin Vulgate. The chapter covers six discrete wisdom teachings: warnings against pledging financial surety for others, an exhortation against laziness using the ant as a model of self-directed industry, a portrait of the deceitful troublemaker who communicates through winks and gestures, the seven things God hates, an instruction to internalize parental teaching as a guiding "lamp," and an extended warning against adultery. The most distinctive scholarly feature is a notable textual divergence: the Septuagint column includes a substantial addition absent from the Hebrew—a passage praising the bee alongside the ant as a model of diligent, dignified labor whose fruits benefit kings and commoners alike. This well-known LXX "plus" illustrates a meaningful difference between the Greek and Hebrew textual traditions of Proverbs. The adultery section makes an unusually sharp legal and social argument: unlike theft (which can be repaid sevenfold and forgiven), adultery inflicts a permanent, uncompensatable dishonor because a cuckolded husband's rage cannot be satisfied by any ransom—making it categorically more destructive to one's standing. The format serves Bible scholars, translators, and students doing comparative textual analysis across the major ancient manuscript traditions.

Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 6

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