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The Darby Translation

Proverbs 9:9

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

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.
Complete Jewish Bible
Give to a wise man, and he grows still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will learn still more.
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 hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars; 2 she hath slaughtered her cattle, she hath mingled her wine, she hath also prepared her table; 3 she hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the summits of the high places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. To him that is void of understanding, she saith, 5 Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine that I have mingled. 6 Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence. 7 He that instructeth a scorner getteth to himself shame; and he that reproveth a wicked [man] [getteth] to himself a blot. 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reprove a wise [man], and he will love thee. 9 Impart to a wise [man], and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous [man], and he will increase learning. 10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the Holy is intelligence.

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 with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt go into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
Genesis 9:7
And ye, be fruitful and multiply: swarm on the earth, and multiply on it.
Genesis 9:8
And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Genesis 9:9
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Genesis 9:10
and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark—every animal of the earth.
Genesis 9:11
And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth.
Genesis 9:17
And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
Genesis 22:17
I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Jeremiah 33:20
Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant [in respect] of the day, and my covenant [in respect] of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,
Romans 1:3
concerning his Son (come of David's seed according to flesh,

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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