Proverbs 9:6,13 - Compare All Versions

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Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of insight.”

Folly is an unruly woman; she is simple and knows nothing.

Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.”

The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.

Leave your simple ways behind, and begin to live; learn to use good judgment.”

The woman named Folly is brash. She is ignorant and doesn’t know it.

Leave inexperience behind, and you will live; pursue the way of understanding.

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

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

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

Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding.

A foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knows nothing.

Lady Wisdom has built and furnished her home; it’s supported by seven hewn timbers. The banquet meal is ready to be served: lamb roasted, wine poured out, table set with silver and flowers. Having dismissed her serving maids, Lady Wisdom goes to town, stands in a prominent place, and invites everyone within sound of her voice: “Are you confused about life, don’t know what’s going on? Come with me, oh come, have dinner with me! I’ve prepared a wonderful spread—fresh-baked bread, roast lamb, carefully selected wines. Leave your impoverished confusion and live! Walk up the street to a life with meaning.” * * *

Then there’s this other woman, Madame Prostitute— brazen, empty-headed, frivolous. She sits on the front porch of her house on Main Street, And as people walk by minding their own business, calls out, “Are you confused about life, don’t know what’s going on? Steal off with me, I’ll show you a good time! No one will ever know—I’ll give you the time of your life.” But they don’t know about all the skeletons in her closet, that all her guests end up in hell.

“Abandon your foolishness and live, And proceed in the way of understanding.”

¶A woman of foolishness is boisterous, She has a lack of understanding and knows nothing.

“Leave [behind] your foolishness [and the foolish] and live, And walk in the way of insight and understanding.”

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

Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”

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