Proverbs 9:6
Forsake the simple and live, || And be blessed in the way of understanding.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
In Context
5“Come, eat of my bread, || And drink of the wine I have mingled.
Cross References
Psalms 45:10Listen, O daughter, and see, incline your ear, || And forget your people, and your father’s house,
Proverbs 4:11I have directed you in a way of wisdom, || I have caused you to tread in paths of uprightness.
Proverbs 8:35For whoever is finding me, has found life, || And brings out goodwill from YHWH.
Proverbs 10:17A traveler to life [is] he who is keeping instruction, || And whoever is forsaking rebuke is erring.
Matthew 7:13Go in through the narrow gate, because wide [is] the gate and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;
Acts 2:40Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation”;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 9:2-13
The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. 7 He that… Read the whole commentary →