Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Forsake the foolish and live; and go in the way of understanding.

New American Standard Bible

Forsake your folly and live,
And proceed in the way of understanding.”

King James Version

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Holman Bible

Leave inexperience behind, and you will live;
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.

Julia Smith Translation

Forsake ye the foolish, and live; and go straight in the way of understanding.

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 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the foolish
פּתאי פּתי פּתי 
P@thiy 
Usage: 19

and live
חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

and go
אשׁר אשׁר 
'ashar 
Usage: 16

in the way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

Context Readings

Wisdom's Banquet

5 Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. 6 Forsake the foolish and live; and go in the way of understanding. 7 One rebuking a scorner gets shame to himself; and one rebuking a wicked one gets himself a blemish.

Cross References

Psalm 26:4-6

I have not sat with lying men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

Psalm 45:10

Listen, O daughter, and look; and bow down your ear; and forget your own people and your father's house.

Psalm 119:115

Depart from me, you evil-doers, for I will keep the Commandments of my God.

Proverbs 4:11

I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in the right paths.

Proverbs 4:14-15

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not into the way of evil.

Proverbs 8:35

For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor from Jehovah.

Proverbs 9:11

For by Me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.

Proverbs 10:17

He who keeps instruction is in the way of life; but he who refuses reproof goes astray.

Proverbs 13:20

He who walks with the wise shall be wise, but a companion with fools shall be destroyed.

Matthew 7:13-14

Go in through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there are who go in through it.

Luke 13:24

Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.

Acts 2:40

And with many other words he earnestly testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean thing. And I will receive you

Revelation 18:4

And I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that you may not be partakers of her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues.

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