Verse List for PROV 13:14

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Instruction from the wise is a fountain of life, ⇔ → turning a person away from deadly traps.

OET-LV the_instruction _of a _wise_person is_a _fountain _of life to_turn _aside from_the_snares _of death.

ULT The law of the wise, is a fountain of life, ⇔ to turn away from the snares of death.

UST What wise people teach continuously benefits people throughout their lives. ⇔  It enables people to avoid dangerous things that could kill them.

BSB & MSB The teaching[fn] of the wise is a fountain of life, ⇔  turning one from the snares of death.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, ⇔  to turn from the snares of death.

NET Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, ⇔ to turn a person from deadly snares.

LSV The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life,
To turn aside from snares of death.

FBV The teaching of the wise is like a fountain of life, so you can avoid the snares of death.

T4T ⇔  What wise people teach is like a fountain whose water gives life [MET]; ⇔  what they teach you will help you to escape when something dangerous is threatening to kill you [MET].

LEB • The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,
• in order to avoid the snares of death.

BBE The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning men away from the nets of death.

Moff A sage’s teaching is a fount of life, ⇔  it shows how to evade the nets of Death.

JPS The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

ASV The law of the wise is a fountain of life, ⇔ That one may depart from the snares of death.

DRA The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.

YLT The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

Drby The teaching of the wise [man] is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.

RV The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

SLT The law of the wise one a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Wbstr The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

KJB-1769 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

KJB-1611 The lawe of the wise is a fountaine of life, to depart from the snares of death.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps The lawe of the wise is a well of life, to auoyde from the snares of death.
(The law of the wise is a well of life, to avoide from the snares of death.)

Gnva The instruction of a wise man is as the welspring of life, to turne away from the snares of death.
(The instruction of a wise man is as the welspring of life, to turn away from the snares of death.)

Cvdl The lawe is a wel of life vnto the wyse, that it maye kepe him from the snares of death.
(The law is a well of life unto the wise, that it may keep him from the snares of death.)

Wycl The lawe of a wise man is a welle of lijf; that he bowe awei fro the falling of deth.
(The law of a wise man is a well of life; that he bow away from the falling of death.)

Luth Die Lehre des Weisen ist eine lebendige Quelle, zu meiden die Stricke des Todes.
(The teaching the wise_(men) is a/one living/lively source/spring(n), to/for avoid the rope/cord the death.)

ClVg Lex sapientis fons vitæ, ut declinet a ruina mortis.[fn]
(Law wise source/spring of_life, as declinet from ruin(n) of_death.)

UHB תּוֹרַ֣ת חָ֭כָם מְק֣וֹר חַיִּ֑ים לָ֝⁠ס֗וּר מִ⁠מֹּ֥קְשֵׁי מָֽוֶת׃ ‡

BrLXX Νόμος σοφοῦ πηγὴ ζωῆς, ὁ δὲ ἄνους ὑπὸ παγίδος θανεῖται.

BrTr The law of the wise is a fountain of life: but the man void of understanding shall die by a snare.