Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Forsake ye the foolish, and live; and go straight in the way of understanding.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Holman Bible
pursue the way of understanding.
International Standard Version
Leave your naive ways, and live. Walk in the path of understanding."
A Conservative Version
Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.
American Standard Version
Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.
Amplified
“Leave [behind] your foolishness [and the foolish] and live,
And walk in the way of insight and understanding.”
Bible in Basic English
Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.
Darby Translation
Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence.
King James 2000
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Lay aside simplicity and live; walk in the way of understanding."
Modern King James verseion
Forsake the foolish and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Forsake ignorance, and ye shall live: and see that ye go in the way of understanding."
NET Bible
Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding."
New Heart English Bible
Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."
The Emphasized Bible
Forsake the simple ones, and live, and advance in the way of understanding.
Webster
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
World English Bible
Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."
Youngs Literal Translation
Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Blessedness of forsaking
Feasts » Of new moons » Spiritual
Spiritual food » Prepared in abundance for believers (select reading pr 91-6)
Spiritual » Feasts » Prepared in abundance for believers (select reading pr 91-6)
Topics
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 9:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Wisdom's Banquet
5 Come ye, eat of my bread, and drink ye of the wine I mingled. 6 Forsake ye the foolish, and live; and go straight in the way of understanding. 7 He instructing him mocking received to himself dishonor: and he reproving to the unjust one, his blemish.
Cross References
Psalm 26:4-6
I sat not with men of vanity, and I will not go in with those lying hid.
Psalm 45:10
Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear, and forget thy people and thy father's house;
Psalm 119:115
Depart from me, ye doing evil, and I will watch the commands of my God.
Proverbs 4:11
In the way of wisdom I taught thee; I caused thee to tread in the tracks of uprightness
Proverbs 4:14-15
In the path of the unjust thou shalt not go, and thou shalt not advance in the way of the wicked.
Proverbs 8:35
For he finding me, the finding of life, and he shall bnng forth acceptance from Jehovah.
Proverbs 9:11
For in me thy days shall be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.
Proverbs 10:17
The path to life is watching instruction: and he forsaking reproof goes astray.
Proverbs 13:20
He going with the wise, and he is wise: and the companion of the foolish shall become evil.
Matthew 7:13-14
Enter ye in through the strait gate, for broad the gate and spacious the way leading to destruction, and many are they coming in through it.
Luke 13:24
Strive earnestly to enter through the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Acts 2:40
And with many other words he appealed earnestly and besought, saying, Be ye saved from this crooked generation.
2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you.
Revelation 18:4
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye partake not of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.