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Proverbs 9:4

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9:4“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,”

she says5 to those6 who lack understanding.7

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Footnotes

  1. 5 Heb “lacking of heart she says to him.” The pronominal suffix is a resumptive pronoun, meaning, “she says to the lacking of heart.”
  2. 6 Heb “him.”
  3. 7 Heb “heart”; cf. “to those who lack judgment.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”

To him who lacks sense she says,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Let all who are simple come to my house!”

To those who have no sense she says,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“Whoever is inexperienced, enter here!”

To the one who lacks sense, she says,

NLTNew Living Translation

“Come in with me,” she urges the simple.

To those who lack good judgment, she says,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“Whoever is simple, let him turn here.”

As for the one who lacks sense, she says to him,

KJV 1900King James Version

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither:

As for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,