Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 29

This is a parallel-text presentation of Proverbs 29 from the Hebrew Bible, displaying three versions side by side: the King James Version in English (with Strong's concordance numbers interleaved), the Masoretic Hebrew text, and Jerome's Latin Vulgate. The format belongs to the comparative scripture study tradition, aimed at readers who want to examine the same passage across source languages and major translation traditions simultaneously. The chapter's content is classic Wisdom literature: a collection of 27 discrete aphorisms contrasting the righteous with the wicked, the wise with the foolish. Recurring themes include the consequences of rejecting correction (v.1), how the moral character of rulers shapes public happiness (vv. 2, 4, 14), the importance of disciplining children and servants (vv. 15, 17, 19, 21), and the dangers of pride, anger, and hasty speech (vv. 11, 20, 22, 23). The most widely quoted verse here is v.18: "Where there is no vision, the people perish." The distinctive feature is the tripartite layout itself, which implicitly argues for reading scripture in its source and historical-translation forms rather than relying on any single rendering — a philological rather than devotional framing. The Strong's numbers embedded in the KJV column are a further scholarly apparatus, allowing readers to trace each English word back to its Hebrew lexical root.

Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 29

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