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Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 22

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This is a parallel-text scholarly presentation of Proverbs 22:1–29, displaying four canonical versions side by side: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers embedded), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic Text, and the Latin Vulgate. The chapter's content consists of wisdom sayings on wealth and poverty, moral character, child-rearing, social conduct, and practical ethics — including the well-known maxims about a good name exceeding riches, training a child in the way they should go, and the rich ruling over the poor. A notable structural feature is the mid-chapter shift (verses 17–21) into a more direct, first-person instructional voice, framing what follows as "words of the wise" the reader should internalize in order to answer truthfully. The text is distinctive for its simultaneous display of the versional traditions, making visible places where the Septuagint diverges from the Hebrew — for instance, expanding verse 8 and adding material not in the KJV or Vulgate. This format serves comparative textual study rather than devotional reading, targeting readers interested in source-critical or translation-history analysis of the Hebrew Bible.

Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 22

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