Proverbs 9:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still; teach the righteous and they will add to their learning.

New Living Translation
Instruct the wise, and they will be even wiser. Teach the righteous, and they will learn even more.

English Standard Version
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

Berean Study Bible
Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.

New American Standard Bible
Give instruction to a wise person and he will become still wiser; Teach a righteous person and he will increase his insight.

NASB 1995
Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser, Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.

NASB 1977
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser, Teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.

Amplified Bible
Give instruction to a wise man and he will become even wiser; Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.

Christian Standard Bible
Instruct the wise, and he will be wiser still; teach the righteous, and he will learn more.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will learn more."

Contemporary English Version
If you have good sense, instruction will help you to have even better sense. And if you live right, education will help you to know even more.

Good News Translation
Anything you say to the wise will make them wiser. Whatever you tell the righteous will add to their knowledge.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Give [advice] to a wise person, and he will become even wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will learn more.

International Standard Version
Counsel a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will add to his learning.

NET Bible
Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

New King James Version
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

King James 2000 Bible
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

New Heart English Bible
Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

World English Bible
Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

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

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

A Faithful Version
Give instruction to a wise one, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Giue admonition to the wise, and he will be the wiser: teache a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Geue a discrete man but an occasion, and he wyll be the wyser: teache a righteous man, and he wyll encrease in knowledge.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Geue a discrete man but an occasion, & he wilbe the wyser: teach a rightuous man, and he wil increase.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, "" Make known to the righteous, "" And he increases learning.

Young's Literal Translation
Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.

Smith's Literal Translation
Thou shalt give to the wise one and he will be more wise: make known to the just one and he will add receiving.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Present an opportunity to the wise, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach the just, and he will hurry to receive it.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Give opportunity to a wise man that again he may learn wisdom, and teach the righteous that he may progress beyond his teacher.

Lamsa Bible
Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Give to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

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
















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