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Proverbs 9:11
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Christian Standard Bible®
For by me your days will be many,and years will be added to your life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
Wisdom will help you live longer; she will add years to your life.
Wisdom will help you live longer; she will add years to your life.
George Lamsa Translation
For by her your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For by me your days will be multiplied, And years of life will be added to you.
Contextual Overview
1 Lady Wisdom has built and furnished her home; it's supported by seven hewn timbers. The banquet meal is ready to be served: lamb roasted, wine poured out, table set with silver and flowers. Having dismissed her serving maids, Lady Wisdom goes to town, stands in a prominent place, and invites everyone within sound of her voice: "Are you confused about life, don't know what's going on? Come with me, oh come, have dinner with me! I've prepared a wonderful spread—fresh-baked bread, roast lamb, carefully selected wines. Leave your impoverished confusion and live! Walk up the street to a life with meaning." 7If you reason with an arrogant cynic, you'll get slapped in the face; confront bad behavior and get a kick in the shins. So don't waste your time on a scoffer; all you'll get for your pains is abuse. But if you correct those who care about life, that's different—they'll love you for it! Save your breath for the wise—they'll be wiser for it; tell good people what you know—they'll profit from it. Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of- God , insight into life from knowing a Holy God. It's through me, Lady Wisdom, that your life deepens, and the years of your life ripen. Live wisely and wisdom will permeate your life; mock life and life will mock you.
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
Isaiah 54:9
"This exile is just like the days of Noah for me: I promised then that the waters of Noah would never again flood the earth. I'm promising now no more anger, no more dressing you down. For even if the mountains walk away and the hills fall to pieces, My love won't walk away from you, my covenant commitment of peace won't fall apart." The God who has compassion on you says so.
"This exile is just like the days of Noah for me: I promised then that the waters of Noah would never again flood the earth. I'm promising now no more anger, no more dressing you down. For even if the mountains walk away and the hills fall to pieces, My love won't walk away from you, my covenant commitment of peace won't fall apart." The God who has compassion on you says so.
2 Peter 3:11
Since everything here today might well be gone tomorrow, do you see how essential it is to live a holy life? Daily expect the Day of God, eager for its arrival. The galaxies will burn up and the elements melt down that day—but we'll hardly notice. We'll be looking the other way, ready for the promised new heavens and the promised new earth, all landscaped with righteousness.
Since everything here today might well be gone tomorrow, do you see how essential it is to live a holy life? Daily expect the Day of God, eager for its arrival. The galaxies will burn up and the elements melt down that day—but we'll hardly notice. We'll be looking the other way, ready for the promised new heavens and the promised new earth, all landscaped with righteousness.
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."
