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Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 15

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This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of Proverbs 15, displaying the same chapter simultaneously in four traditions: the King James Version with interlinear Strong's concordance numbers, the Greek Septuagint (LXX), the Hebrew Masoretic text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The work belongs to the genre of biblical polyglot or comparative scripture study, placing each verse side-by-side across versions to enable textual criticism and translation comparison. The chapter itself is a collection of wisdom aphorisms contrasting the righteous and the wicked across themes of speech, discipline, divine perception, wealth, and emotion — anchored by the opening maxim that a soft answer turns away wrath. Notably, the Septuagint column diverges from the Hebrew at several points, including expansions in verse 6 (adding that the wicked will be "uprooted from the earth") and verse 27 (adding lines about almsgiving and fear of the Lord purging sin), making the Greek tradition visibly more expansive than the Hebrew source. The Strong's numbers embedded throughout the KJV column allow readers to trace each word to its original Hebrew root, signaling that the primary audience is serious students of biblical languages rather than casual readers. Someone interested in translation history, textual variants between the Hebrew and Greek Old Testament, or the literary structure of Israelite wisdom literature would find this directly useful.

Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 15

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