Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The woman of folly is boisterous,
She is naive and knows nothing.

King James Version

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

Holman Bible

The woman Folly is rowdy;
she is gullible and knows nothing.

International Standard Version

The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and without knowledge.

A Conservative Version

The foolish woman is clamorous, simple, and knows nothing.

American Standard Version

The foolish woman is clamorous;'she is'simple, and knoweth nothing.

Amplified


The foolish woman is restless and noisy;
She is naive and easily misled and thoughtless, and knows nothing at all [of eternal value].

Bible in Basic English

The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

Darby Translation

The foolish woman is clamorous; she is stupid, and knoweth nothing.

Julia Smith Translation

A woman of folly being noisy, simple, and she knew not anything.

King James 2000

A foolish woman is boisterous: she is simple, and knows nothing.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A woman of foolishness is loud, simple, and does not know {it}.

Modern King James verseion

A foolish woman is noisy; she is simple and knows nothing.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A foolish restless woman, full of words, and such one as hath no knowledge,

NET Bible

The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.

New Heart English Bible

The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

The Emphasized Bible

The woman Stupidity, is boisterous, so simple that she knoweth not what she would do;

Webster

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

World English Bible

The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

Youngs Literal Translation

A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּסילוּת 
K@ciyluwth 
Usage: 1

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

she is simple
פּתיּוּת 
P@thayuwth 
Usage: 1

and
בּל 
Bal 
none, not, nor, lest, nothing, not, neither, no
Usage: 69

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Foolishness' Banquet

12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it. 13 The woman of folly is boisterous,
She is naive and knows nothing.
14 She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town,

Cross References

Proverbs 7:11

She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home;

Proverbs 5:6

she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

1 Timothy 6:4

he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

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