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Proverbs 9:9

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.

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.
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 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 her house. She has made seven pillars to hold it up. 2 She has cooked her food, and has mixed her wine, and she has set her table. 3 She has sent out the young women who work for her. She calls from the highest places of the city, 4 "Whoever is easy to fool, let him turn in here!" She says to the one without understanding, 5 "Come and eat my food, and drink the wine I have mixed. 6 Turn from your foolish way, and live. Walk in the way of understanding." 7 He who speaks strong words to the man who laughs at the truth brings shame upon himself. He who speaks strong words to a sinful man gets hurt. 8 Do not speak strong words to a man who laughs at the truth, or he will hate you. Speak strong words to a wise man, and he will love you. 9 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. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. To learn about the Holy One 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 make My agreement with you. You will go into the large boat, you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 9:7
As for you, have many children. Cover the earth with many people."
Genesis 9:8
Then God said to Noah and his sons,
Genesis 9:9
"See, I make My agreement with you, and with your children after you,
Genesis 9:10
and with every living thing that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth, of all that came out of the large boat, every living thing on earth.
Genesis 9:11
I make My agreement with you, that never again will all flesh be destroyed by the water of a flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth."
Genesis 9:17
God said to Noah, "This is the special thing to see because of the agreement I have made between Me and all flesh upon the earth."
Genesis 22:17
I will bring good to you. I will add many to the number of your children and all who come after them, like the stars of the heavens and the sand beside the sea. They will take over the cities of those who hate them.
Jeremiah 33:20
"This is what the Lord says: ‘If you can break My agreement with the day and night, so that day and night will not come at their set time,
Romans 1:3
It tells of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Who was born as a person in the flesh through the family of King David.

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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