Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 16

This is a scholarly biblical study resource presenting Proverbs 16:11–33 and 17:1–9 in four parallel textual traditions: the King James Version (with embedded Strong's concordance numbers), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic Text, and the Latin Vulgate. The format is designed for comparative textual analysis across the major ancient witnesses to the Hebrew Bible. The passage covers the thematic core of Proverbs' wisdom tradition: God's sovereignty over human plans and moral order, the role of kings as instruments of justice, and the contrast between wisdom and folly. Recurring motifs include divine weighing of the spirit, the abomination of pride ("Pride goeth before destruction"), the superiority of wisdom over gold and silver, the danger of perverse speech, and self-mastery as greater than military conquest. The side-by-side multilingual layout reveals translational divergences — notably the Septuagint's expansions and the Vulgate's grouping of verses into bracketed units — making it useful for anyone studying how this text was transmitted, interpreted, and theologically nuanced across traditions. A reader interested in biblical textual criticism, ancient translation history, or the theology of Proverbs would find this a compact comparative reference, though it assumes familiarity with at least one of the source languages to engage fully.

Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 16

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