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Complete Jewish Bible

Proverbs 9:9

Give to a wise man, and he grows still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will learn still more.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Counsel;   Wisdom;   The Topic Concordance - Instruction;   Justice;   Rebuke;   Reproof;   Scorn;   Teaching;   Wisdom;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Prostitution;   Proverbs, Book of;   Scoffer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Winter ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hosanna;   Teach;   Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Instruct the wise, and he will be wiser still;teach the righteous, and he will learn more.
Hebrew Names Version
Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
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.
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.
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.
New Century Version
Teach the wise, and they will become even wiser; teach good people, and they will learn even more.
New English Translation
Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to 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.
World English Bible
Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Giue admonition to the wise, and he will be the wiser: teache a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Legacy Standard Bible
Give knowledge to a wise man and he will be still wiser,Make a righteous man know it and he will increase his learning.
Berean Standard Bible
Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
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.
Darby Translation
Impart to a wise [man], and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous [man], and he will increase learning.
Easy-to-Read Version
Teach the wise, and they will become wiser. Instruct those who live right, and they will gain more knowledge.
George Lamsa Translation
Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Good News Translation
Anything you say to the wise will make them wiser. Whatever you tell the righteous will add to their knowledge.
Lexham English Bible
Give to a wise one and he will become more wise; teach a righteous one and he will increase learning.
Literal Translation
Give to a wise one, and he will be more wise; teach a just one, and he will increase in learning.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Geue a discrete man but an occasion, & he wilbe the wyser: teach a rightuous man, and he wil increase.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Give teaching to a wise man, and he will become wiser; give training to an upright man, and his learning will be increased.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Give to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
King James Version (1611)
Giue instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a iust man, and he will increase in learning.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Geue a discrete man but an occasion, and he wyll be the wyser: teache a righteous man, and he wyll encrease in knowledge.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be wiser: instruct a just man, and he will receive more instruction.
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Yyue thou occasioun to a wise man; and wisdom schal be encreessid to hym. Teche thou a iust man; and he schal haste to take.
Update Bible 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.
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.
New Living Translation
Instruct the wise, and they will be even wiser. Teach the righteous, and they will learn even more.
New Life Bible
Give teaching to a wise man and he will be even wiser. Teach a man who is right and good, and he will grow in learning.
New Revised Standard
Give instruction to the wise, and they will become wiser still; teach the righteous and they will gain in learning.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Give to a wise man, and he will be wiser still, Inform a righteous man, and he will increase learning.
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.
Revised Standard Version
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning.
Young's Literal Translation
Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser, Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.

Contextual Overview

1 Wisdom has built herself a house; she has carved her seven pillars. 2 She has prepared her food, spiced her wine, and she has set her table. 3 She has sent out her young girls [with invitations]; she calls from the heights of the city, 4 "Whoever is unsure of himself, turn in here!" To someone weak-willed she says, 5 "Come and eat my food! Drink the wine I have mixed! 6 Don't stay unsure of yourself, but live! Walk in the way of understanding!" 7 "He who corrects a scoffer only gets insulted; reproving a wicked man becomes his blemish. 8 If you reprove a scoffer, he will hate you; if you reprove a wise man, he will love you. 9 Give to a wise man, and he grows still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will learn still more. 10 The fear of Adonai is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of holy ones is understanding.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 1:5, Proverbs 25:12, Hosea 6:3, Matthew 13:11, Matthew 13:12, 2 Peter 3:18, 1 John 2:20, 1 John 2:21, 1 John 5:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:16 - thus Exodus 18:19 - Hearken 1 Samuel 25:33 - blessed 2 Kings 5:14 - went he down 2 Chronicles 10:8 - he forsook Ezra 10:5 - arose Job 6:24 - Teach me Psalms 141:5 - the righteous Proverbs 10:8 - wise Proverbs 10:14 - lay Proverbs 12:15 - but Proverbs 13:18 - he Proverbs 15:14 - heart Proverbs 15:31 - ear Proverbs 17:10 - General Proverbs 18:15 - General Proverbs 19:25 - reprove Proverbs 21:11 - when the wise Ezekiel 3:21 - he shall Mark 8:33 - he rebuked Acts 10:33 - are we Acts 17:11 - more Acts 18:26 - expounded 1 Corinthians 14:31 - all may learn 2 Corinthians 7:7 - when 2 Thessalonians 3:15 - admonish

Cross-References

Genesis 6:18
But I will establish my covenant with you; you will come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 9:7
And you people, be fruitful, multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply on it."
Genesis 9:8
(v) God spoke to Noach and his sons with him; he said,
Genesis 9:9
"As for me — I am herewith establishing my covenant with you, with your descendants after you,
Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that is with you — the birds, the livestock and every wild animal with you, all going out of the ark, every animal on earth.
Genesis 9:11
I will establish my covenant with you that never again will all living beings be destroyed by the waters of a flood, and there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth."
Genesis 9:17
God said to Noach, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between myself and every living creature on the earth."
Genesis 22:17
I will most certainly bless you; and I will most certainly increase your descendants to as many as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the cities of their enemies,
Jeremiah 33:20
"Here is what Adonai says: ‘If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that daytime and nighttime no longer come when they are supposed to,
Romans 1:3
It concerns his Son — he is descended from David physically;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Give [instruction] to a wise [man],.... In the Hebrew text it is only "give to a wise man"; give him reproof, correction, chastisement, doctrine, or instruction, be it what it will, he will be the better for it. The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "give occasion"; to him of showing his wisdom and of improving in it:

and he will be yet wiser; he will learn something by every him that is given him, whether it be by way of rebuke, or by way of instruction;

teach a just [man]; one that is truly so, that has seen the insufficiency of his own righteousness, and has renounced that, and does not trust in it; and who has learned Christ, as the Lord his righteousness; has seen the glory, fulness, and suitableness of his righteousness, and trusts unto it and depends upon it; and in consequence of this lives soberly, righteously, and godly; teach such a man the doctrines of the Gospel, and every lesson of obedience and duty,

and he will increase in learning; he will grow in grace, and in the knowledge of Christ and all divine things; see Matthew 13:12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses seem somewhat to interrupt the continuity of the invitation which Wisdom utters. The order of thought is, however, this: “I speak to you, the simple, the open ones, for you have yet ears to hear: but from the scorner or evil doer, as such, I turn away.” The words are illustrated by Matthew 13:11 ff.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 9:9. Give instruction to a wise man] Literally give to the wise, and he will be wise. Whatever you give to such, they reap profit from it. They are like the bee, they extract honey from every flower.


 
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