Verse List for PROV 9:9

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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) Give to a wise person and they’ll become wiser still. ⇔ ≈ Inform an honest person and they’ll keep learning.

OET-LV Give to_a _wise_person and_he _will _be _wise yet make _known to_a _righteous_person so_that _he _may _increase learning.

ULT Give to a wise, one, and he will become more wise; ⇔ inform a righteous, one, and he will increase learning.

UST If you instruct wise people, then they will become even wiser. ⇔  If you teach righteous people, then they will learn even more.

BSB & MSB Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; ⇔  teach a righteous man, and he will increase [his] learning.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. ⇔  Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

NET Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; ⇔ teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.

LSV Give to the wise, and he is wiser still,
Make known to the righteous,
And he increases learning.

FBV Educate the wise and they'll become even wiser; teach those who live right and they will increase their learning.

T4T If you give instruction to wise people, they will become wiser. ⇔  And if you teach righteous people, they will learn more.

LEB • Give to a wise one and he will become more wise;
• teach[fn] a righteous one and he will increase learning.

BBE Give teaching to a wise man, and he will become wiser; give training to an upright man, and his learning will be increased.

Moff Instruct a man of sense, and he will gain more sense; ⇔  teach a good man, and he will learn the more.

JPS Give to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

ASV Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: ⇔ Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

DRA Give an occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach a just man, and he shall make haste to receive it.

YLT Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.

Drby Impart to a wise [man], and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous [man], and he will increase learning.

RV Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

SLT Thou shalt give to the wise one and he will be more wise: make known to the just one and he will add receiving.

Wbstr Give instruction to a wise man , and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man , and he will increase in learning.

KJB-1769 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

KJB-1611 Giue instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a iust man, and he will increase in learning.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Geue a discrete man but an occasion, and he wyll be the wyser: teache a righteous man, and he wyll encrease in knowledge.
(Give a discrete man but an occasion, and he will be the wiser: teach a righteous man, and he will increase in knowledge.)

Gnva Giue admonition to the wise, and he will be the wiser: teache a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
(Give admonition to the wise, and he will be the wiser: teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.)

Cvdl Geue a discrete man but an occasion, & he wilbe the wyser: teach a rightuous man, and he wil increase.
(Give a discrete man but an occasion, and he will be the wiser: teach a righteous man, and he will increase.)

Wycl Yyue thou occasioun to a wise man; and wisdom schal be encreessid to hym. Teche thou a iust man; and he schal haste to take.
(Give thou/you occasioun to a wise man; and wisdom shall be increased to him. Teche thou/you a just man; and he shall haste to take.)

Luth Gib dem Weisen, so wird er noch weiser werden; lehre den Gerechten, so wird er in der Lehre zunehmen.
(Give to_him wise_(men), so becomes he still wiser become; teach the righteous_(ones), so becomes he in the/of_the teaching zunehmen.)

ClVg Da sapienti occasionem, et addetur ei sapientia; doce justum, et festinabit accipere.
(Give sapienti opportunity, and he_will_addur to_him wisdom; teach just, and festinabit to_receive.)

UHB תֵּ֣ן לְ֭⁠חָכָם וְ⁠יֶחְכַּם־ע֑וֹד הוֹדַ֥ע לְ֝⁠צַדִּ֗יק וְ⁠י֣וֹסֶף לֶֽקַח׃פ ‡

BrLXX Δίδου σοφῷ ἀφορμὴν, καὶ σοφώτερος ἔσται· γνώριζε δικαίῳ, καὶ προσθήσει τοῦ δέχεσθαι.

BrTr Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be wiser: instruct a just man, and he will receive more instruction.