6Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.


In Context

3 She has sent out her maids, and she calls from the highest point of the city.

4 "Let all who are simple come in here!" she says to those who lack judgment.

5 "Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have mixed.

6 Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.

7 "Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse.

8 Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you.

Proverbs 9:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:6Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:6Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:6Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:6Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; and walk in the way of understanding.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:6Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:6Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.