American Standard Version
Proverbs 9:6
6Leave off, ye simple ones, and live;And walk in the way of understanding.
Proverbs 9:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
- New International Version (NIV)Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of insight.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding.
Context of Proverbs 9:6
4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him, 5Come, eat ye of my bread, And drink of the wine which I have mingled. Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding. 7He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man getteth himself a blot. 8Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.
Read all of Proverbs 9Proverbs 9:6 word by word
עִזְב֣וּ פְתָאיִ֣ם וִֽחְי֑וּ וְ֝אִשְׁר֗וּ בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ בִּינָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 9:6
- Proverbs 4:14Enter not into the path of the wicked, And walk not in the way of evil men.
- Proverbs 13:20Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.
- Psalms 26:4I have not sat with men of falsehood; Neither will I go in with dissemblers.
- Psalms 45:10Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house:
- Psalms 119:115Depart from me, ye evil-doers, That I may keep the commandments of my God.
- Acts 2:40And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.
- 2 Corinthians 6:17Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
- Revelation 18:4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues:
- Proverbs 4:11I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in paths of uprightness.
- Proverbs 10:17He is in the way of life that heedeth correction; But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.
- Matthew 7:13Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby.
- Luke 13:24Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Commentaries on Proverbs 9:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Forsake the foolish - For the companion of fools must be a fool. And live - Answer the end for which thou wert born.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6Wisdom helps people handle life well.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-64-6. (Compare Pr 1:4; 6:32). Wisdom not only supplies right but forbids wrong principles.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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