English Standard Version
Proverbs 9:6
6Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight."
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.”
- New King James Version (NKJV)Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Leave your simple ways behind, and begin to live; learn to use good judgment.”
Context of Proverbs 9:6
4"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" To him who lacks sense she says, 5"Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight." 7Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. 8Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
Read all of Proverbs 9Proverbs 9:6 word by word
עִזְב֣וּ פְתָאיִ֣ם וִֽחְי֑וּ וְ֝אִשְׁר֗וּ בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ בִּינָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 9:6
- Proverbs 4:14Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil.
- Proverbs 13:20Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
- Psalms 26:4I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites.
- Psalms 45:10Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father's house,
- Psalms 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
- Acts 2:40And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation."
- 2 Corinthians 6:17Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,
- Revelation 18:4Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
- Proverbs 4:11I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
- Proverbs 10:17Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
- Matthew 7:13"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
- Luke 13:24"Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will 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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