the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Proverbs 9:9
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Instruct the wise, and he will be wiser still;teach the righteous, and he will learn more.
Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Give instruction to a wise person and he will become still wiser; Teach a righteous person and he will increase his insight.
Teach the wise, and they will become even wiser; teach good people, and they will learn even more.
Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.
Give instruction to a wise man and he will become even wiser; Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.
Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Give knowledge to a wise man and he will be still wiser,Make a righteous man know it and he will increase his learning.
Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
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.
Give to a wise man, and he grows still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will learn still more.
Impart to a wise [man], and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous [man], and he will increase learning.
Teach the wise, and they will become wiser. Instruct those who live right, and they will gain more knowledge.
Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Anything you say to the wise will make them wiser. Whatever you tell the righteous will add to their knowledge.
Give to a wise one and he will become more wise; teach a righteous one and he will increase learning.
Give to a wise one, and he will be more wise; teach a just one, and he will increase in learning.
Geue a discrete man but an occasion, & he wilbe the wyser: teach a rightuous man, and he wil increase.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Give teaching to a wise man, and he will become wiser; give training to an upright man, and his learning will be increased.
Give to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Giue instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a iust man, and he will increase in learning.
Geue a discrete man but an occasion, and he wyll be the wyser: teache a righteous man, and he wyll encrease in knowledge.
Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be wiser: instruct a just man, and he will receive more instruction.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
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.
Give [instruction] to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Instruct the wise, and they will be even wiser. Teach the righteous, and they will learn even more.
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.
Give instruction to the wise, and they will become wiser still; teach the righteous and they will gain in learning.
Give to a wise man, and he will be wiser still, Inform a righteous man, and he will increase learning.
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.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning.
Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.
Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser, Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.
Contextual Overview
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
But with thee will I establish my couenant, and thou shalt goe into the Arke, thou, and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and thy sonnes wiues with thee.
But bring ye forth fruite & multiplie: grow plentifully in the earth, and increase therein.
God spake also to Noah & to his sonnes with him, saying,
Behold, I, euen I establish my couenant with you, and with your seede after you,
And with euery liuing creature that is with you, with the foule, with the cattell, and with euery beast of the earth with you, from all that goe out of the Arke, vnto euery beast of the earth.
And my couenant will I establish with you, that from henceforth all flesh shall not be rooted out by ye waters of the flood, neither shall there be a flood to destroy the earth any more.
God said yet to Noah, This is the signe of the couenant, which I haue established betweene me and all flesh that is vpon the earth.
Therefore will I surely blesse thee, and will greatly multiplie thy seede, as the starres of the heauen, and as the sand which is vpon the sea shore, and thy seede shall possesse the gate of his enemies.
Thus sayth the Lord, If you can breake my couenant of the day, and my couenant of the night, that there should not be day, and night in their season,
Concerning his Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord (which was made of the seede of Dauid according to the 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.
