Proverbs 9:11

Easy-to-Read Version

Wisdom will help you live longer; she will add years to your life.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For by me your days will be many,and years will be added to your life.

Hebrew Names Version
For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

King James Version
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

English Standard Version
For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

New American Standard Bible
For by me your days will be multiplied, And years of life will be added to you.

New Century Version
If you live wisely, you will live a long time; wisdom will add years to your life.

New English Translation
For because of me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.

Amplified Bible
For by me (wisdom from God) your days will be multiplied, And years of life shall be increased.

World English Bible
For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For thy dayes shalbe multiplied by me, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe augmented.

Legacy Standard Bible
For by me your days will become many,And years of life will be added to you.

Berean Standard Bible
For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

Contemporary English Version
I am Wisdom. If you follow me, you will live a long time.

Complete Jewish Bible
For with me, your days will be increased; years will be added to your life.

Darby Translation
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.

George Lamsa Translation
For by her your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.

Good News Translation
Wisdom will add years to your life.

Lexham English Bible
For by me your days shall increase, and years of life shall multiply for you.

Literal Translation
For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thorow me yi dayes shalbe prolonged, and the yeares of thy life shal be many.

American Standard Version
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, And the years of thy life shall be increased.

Bible in Basic English
For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

King James Version (1611)
For by me thy dayes shall be multiplied: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe increased.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thorowe me thy dayes shalbe prolonged, and the yeres of thy life shall be many.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For in this way thou shalt live long, and years of thy life shall be added to thee.

English Revised Version
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thi daies schulen be multiplied bi me; and yeeris of lijf schulen be encreessid to thee.

Update Bible Version
For by me your days shall be multiplied, And the years of your life shall be increased.

Webster's Bible Translation
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

New King James Version
For by me your days will be multiplied, And years of life will be added to you.

New Living Translation
Wisdom will multiply your days and add years to your life.

New Life Bible
For by me your days will grow in number, and years will be added to your life.

New Revised Standard
For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, by me, shall be multiplied - thy days, and there be added to thee - the years of life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For by me shall thy days be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.

Revised Standard Version
For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

Young's Literal Translation
For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For by me your days will be multiplied, And years of life will be added to you.

Contextual Overview

¹ Wisdom has built her house; she has made it strong with seven columns. ² She has cooked meat, mixed wine, and put food on the table. ³ She has sent her servant girls to announce from the highest hill in the city, ⁴ "Whoever needs instruction, come." She invites all the simple people and says, ⁵ "Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have prepared. ⁶ Leave your old, foolish ways and live! Advance along the path of understanding." ⁷ Criticize a person who is rude and shows no respect, and you will only get insults. Correct the wicked, and you will only get hurt. ⁸ Don't correct such people, or they will hate you. But correct those who are wise, and they will love you. ⁹ Teach the wise, and they will become wiser. Instruct those who live right, and they will gain more knowledge. ¹⁰ Wisdom begins with fear and respect for the Lord . Knowledge of the Holy One leads to understanding.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 3:2, Proverbs 3:16, Proverbs 10:27, Deuteronomy 6:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 11:9 - prolong Deuteronomy 11:21 - your days Job 5:26 - in a full age Proverbs 1:33 - whoso Proverbs 12:28 - General Proverbs 13:14 - law Ecclesiastes 7:12 - the excellency

Cross-References

Genesis 9:21
One day Noah made some wine. He got drunk, went into his tent, and took off all his clothes.

Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his brothers who were outside the tent.

Genesis 9:23
Shem and Japheth took a robe, put it across their shoulders, and walked backward into the tent. Then they covered their father without looking at him.

Isaiah 54:9
"Remember, in Noah's time I punished the world with the flood. But I made a promise to Noah that I would never again destroy the world with water. In the same way, I promise that I will never again be angry with you and say bad things to you.

2 Peter 3:7
And that same word of God is keeping the skies and the earth that we have now. They are being kept to be destroyed by fire. They are kept for the day of judgment and the destruction of all people who are against God.

2 Peter 3:11
Everything will be destroyed in this way. So what kind of people should you be? Your lives should be holy and devoted to God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For by me thy days shall be multiplied,.... These are the words of Wisdom, and contain a reason and argument why her call and advice in the preceding verses should be listened unto, since she gives long life to her followers. She is a tree of life unto them, the author and giver of spiritual and eternal life; by means of her bread and her wine spiritual life is maintained, promoted, and preserved; and length of days, for ever and ever, is the gift of her right hand; see Proverbs 3:16. The Targum is,

"for by it thy days shall be multiplied;''

which seems to refer it to the fear of the Lord, the beginning of wisdom, in Proverbs 9:10, to which long life is attributed; see

Proverbs 10:27;

and the years of thy life shall be increased; or, "they shall add years of life to thee" o; wisdom and understanding, the fear of the Lord, and the knowledge of the Holy; if not in this world, yet in the world to come, which will be without end.

o יוסיפו לך שנות חיים "et addent tibi annos vitae", Baynus, Cocceius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 9:11. For by me thy days shall be multiplied — Vice shortens human life, by a necessity of consequence: and by the same, righteousness lengthens it. There is a long addition here in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate: "He who trusts in falsity feeds on the winds; and is like him who chases the fowls of heaven. He forsakes the way of his own vineyard, and errs from the paths of his own inheritance. He enters also into lonely and desert places, and into a land abandoned to thirst; and his hands collect that which yieldeth no fruit."