Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.
New American Standard Bible
To turn aside from the
King James Version
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Holman Bible
turning people away from the snares of death.
International Standard Version
What the wise have to teach is a fountain of life and causes someone to avoid the snares of death.
A Conservative Version
The law of a wise man is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
American Standard Version
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, That one may depart from the snares of death.
Amplified
The teaching of the wise is a fountain and source of life,
So that one may avoid the snares of death.
Bible in Basic English
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning men away from the nets of death.
Darby Translation
The teaching of the wise man is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.
Julia Smith Translation
The law of the wise one a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
King James 2000
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The teaching of the wise [is] a fountain of life, [in order] to avoid the snares of death.
Modern King James verseion
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The law is a well of life unto the wise; that it may keep him from the snares of death.
NET Bible
Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, to turn a person from deadly snares.
New Heart English Bible
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.
The Emphasized Bible
the instruction of the wise, is a well-spring of life, by departing from the snares of death.
Webster
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
World English Bible
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.
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References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 13:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Wise Son Lives Righteously
13 Whoso is despising the Word is destroyed for it, And whoso is fearing the Command is repayed. 14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death. 15 Good understanding giveth grace, And the way of the treacherous is hard.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:11
A fountain of life is the mouth of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.
Proverbs 14:27
The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.
Psalm 18:5
Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.
2 Samuel 22:6-7
The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been the snares of death.
Psalm 116:3
Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.
Proverbs 9:11
For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.
Proverbs 15:24
A path of life is on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.
Proverbs 16:6
In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.
Proverbs 16:17
A highway of the upright is, 'Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.
Proverbs 16:22
A fountain of life is understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly.