PRO 15:24 Parallel View

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ULT The path of life is upward for the insightful one,
 ⇔ in order to turn away from Sheol below.

UST How insightful people live causes them to live for a long time
⇔ in order for them to avoid going to the place where dead people are.

BSB  ⇔ The path of life leads upward for the wise,
⇔ that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

OEB The wise man’s path goes upward to life;
⇔ He avoids the way to Sheol beneath.

WEB The path of life leads upward for the wise,
⇔ to keep him from going downward to Sheol.[fn]

15:24 Sheol is the place of the dead.

NET The path of life is upward for the wise person,
 ⇔ to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

LSV A path of life [is] on high for the wise,
To turn aside from Sheol beneath.

FBV Life's path for the wise leads upwards, so that they can avoid the grave below.

T4T  ⇔ Wise people walk on a road that leads up to a long life;
⇔ they do not walk on a road that leads down to the place where dead people are.

LEB • leads upward for him who has insight, in order to turn away from Sheol below.

BBE Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

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JPS The path of life goeth upward for the wise, that he may depart from the nether-world beneath.

ASV To the wise the way of life goeth upward,
 ⇔ That he may depart from Sheol beneath.

DRA The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from the lowest hell.

YLT A path of life [is] on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.

DBY The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

RV To the wise the way of life goeth upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

WBS The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

KJB The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
(The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. )

BB The way of lyfe is on hygh to the wise, that a man shoulde beware of hell beneath.
(The way of life is on hygh to the wise, that a man should beware of hell beneath.)

GNV The way of life is on high to the prudent, to auoyde from hell beneath.

CB The waye of life ledeth vnto heaue, yt a man shulde bewarre of hell beneth.
(The way of life leadeth/leads unto heaue, it a man should bewarre of hell beneth.)

WYC The path of lijf is on a lernyd man; that he bowe awei fro the laste helle.
(The path of life is on a lernyd man; that he bow away from the last helle.)

LUT Der Weg des Lebens gehet überwärts klug zu machen, auf daß man meide die Hölle unterwärts.
(The path the life gehet überwärts klug to machen, on that man meide the hell unterwärts.)

CLV Semita vitæ super eruditum, ut declinet de inferno novissimo.][fn]
(Semita of_life super eruditum, as declinet about inferno novissimo.])

15.24 De inferno novissimo, etc. Primus infernus cæcitas peccantis animæ, et veræ lucis scientia carentis, de quo: Descendunt in infernum viventes Psal. 54..

15.24 De inferno novissimo, etc. Primus infernus cæcitas peccantis animæ, and veræ lucis scientia carentis, about quo: Descendunt in infernum viventes Psal. 54..

BRN The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from hell.

BrLXX Ὁδοὶ ζωῆς διανοήματα συνετοῦ, ἵνα ἐκκλίνας ἐκ τοῦ ᾅδου σωθῇ.
(Hodoi zōaʸs dianoaʸmata sunetou, hina ekklinas ek tou ᾅdou sōthaʸ. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

אֹ֣רַח חַ֭יִּים לְ⁠מַ֣עְלָ⁠ה לְ⁠מַשְׂכִּ֑יל

path life(pl) to,upward, for,wise

The path of life and the insightful one represent paths and insightful people in general, not a specific path or insightful one. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use more natural expressions. Alternate translation: “The paths of lives are upward for those who are insightful”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

אֹ֣רַח חַ֭יִּים לְ⁠מַ֣עְלָ⁠ה

path life(pl) to,upward,

Here Solomon speaks of a lifestyle that results in a long life as if it were a path that goes upward. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “The lifestyle results in a long life”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

חַ֭יִּים

life(pl)

Here, life refers to a long life. See how you translated the same use of life in 10:16.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

לְמַ֥עַן ס֝֗וּר

in_order_to turn_away

Solomon is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You could supply these words from the previous clause if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “in order for the insightful one to turn away”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

לְמַ֥עַן ס֝֗וּר מִ⁠שְּׁא֥וֹל

in_order_to turn_away from,sheol

Here Solomon speaks of avoiding Sheol as if Sheol were a place that a person could turn away from. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “in order to avoid going to Sheol”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

מִ⁠שְּׁא֥וֹל מָֽטָּה

from,sheol below

The Israelites referred to dying as going down to Sheol, which is the place where people’s spirits go when they die. Here Solomon refers to Sheol as if it were below the place where living people are. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state that explicitly. See how you translated Sheol in 1:12. Alternate translation: “from the place where the spirits of dead people dwell” or “from the place of the dead”

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