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


In Context

3 She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:

4 |Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!| As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

5 |Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

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

7 He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.

8 Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:6Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk 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 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.