Proverbs 9:6
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- 10 There are two ways to take this word: either as “fools” or as “foolish ways.” The spelling for “foolishness” in v. 13 differs from this spelling, and so some have taken that as an indicator that this should be “fools.” But this could still be an abstract plural here as in 1:22. Either the message is to forsake fools (i.e., bad company; cf. , ) or forsake foolishness (cf. , , , , , ).
- 11 The two imperatives are joined with vav; this is a volitive sequence in which result or consequence is expressed.
- 12 The verb means “go straight, go on, advance” or “go straight on in the way of understanding” ( 80 אָשַׁר).
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Leave your simple ways, and live,
and walk in the way of insight.”
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Leave your simple ways and you will live;
walk in the way of insight.”
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Leave inexperience behind, and you will live;
pursue the way of understanding.
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NLTNew Living Translation
Leave your simple ways behind, and begin to live;
learn to use good judgment.”
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Lay aside simplicity and live;
walk in the way of understanding.”
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
KJV 1900King James Version
Forsake the foolish, and live;
And go in the way of understanding.
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