PRO 23:23 Parallel Verse View

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ULT Acquire truth and do not sell,
⇔ wisdom and instruction and understanding.

UST Learn what is true and remember it.
⇔ Learn what is wise and instructive and what you should understand.

BSB Invest in truth and never sell it—
⇔ in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

OEB No OEB PRO 23:23 verse available

WEBBE Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
⇔ Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Acquire truth and do not sell it –
⇔ wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.

LSV Buy truth, and do not sell,
Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

FBV Invest in truth—and don't sell it! Invest in wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

T4T Try to know/learn what is wise, and get good instruction and understanding;
⇔ and do not throw those things away.

LEB • it, wisdom and instruction and understanding.

BBE Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

Moff No Moff PRO book available

JPS Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

ASV Buy the truth, and sell it not;
⇔ Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

DRA Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

YLT Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

Drby Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.

RV Buy the truth, and sell it not; yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Wbstr Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

KJB-1769 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

KJB-1611 Buy the trueth, and sell it not; also wisedome and instruction and vnderstanding.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Purchase trueth, wysdome, nurture, and vnderstanding, and sell them not.
(Purchase truth, wisdom, nurture, and understanding, and sell them not.)

Gnva Bye the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding.
(Bye the truth, but sell it not: likewise wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. )

Cvdl Labor for to get ye treuth: sell not awaye wy?dome, nourtor & vnderstodinge
(Labor for to get ye/you_all treuth: sell not away wisdom, nourtor and understanding)

Wycl Bie thou treuthe, and nyle thou sille wisdom, and doctryn, and vndurstonding.
(Bie thou/you truth, and nyle thou/you sille wisdom, and doctryn, and understonding.)

Luth Kaufe Wahrheit und verkaufe sie nicht, Weisheit, Zucht und Verstand.
(Kaufe truth and verkaufe they/she/them not, Weisheit, Zucht and Verstand.)

ClVg Veritatem eme, et noli vendere sapientiam, et doctrinam, et intelligentiam.
(Veritatem eme, and noli vendere wisdom, and doctrinam, and intelligentiam. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

אֱמֶ֣ת קְ֭נֵה וְ⁠אַל־תִּמְכֹּ֑ר

truth buy and,not sell

Here the writer speaks of learning and remembering truth as if it were an object that someone can Acquire and sell. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Learn truth and do not forget it”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

אֱמֶ֣ת & חָכְמָ֖ה וּ⁠מוּסָ֣ר וּ⁠בִינָֽה

truth & wisdom and,instruction and,understanding

See how you translated the abstract nouns truth in 8:7 and wisdom, instruction, and understanding in 1:2.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / litotes

וְ⁠אַל־תִּמְכֹּ֑ר

and,not sell

The writer is using a figure of speech here that expresses a strongly positive meaning by using a negative word, not, together with an expression that is the opposite of the intended meaning. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the positive meaning. Alternate translation: “and keep it”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

חָכְמָ֖ה וּ⁠מוּסָ֣ר וּ⁠בִינָֽה

wisdom and,instruction and,understanding

The writer 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 earlier in the sentence if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “and acquire wisdom and instruction and understanding”

Parallel PRO 23:23