◄ Proverbs 9:11 {12} ►
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Good News Translation
Wisdom will add years to your life.

New Revised Standard Version
For by me 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.

New American Bible
For by me your days will be multiplied and the years of your life increased.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.

Proverbs 3:2,16 Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart. . . .

Proverbs 10:27 The expectation of the just is joy: but the hope of the wicked shall perish.

Deuteronomy 6:2 That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy grandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.

Context
The Way of Wisdom
…10For by me shall thy days be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee. 11If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.12A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:21
That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.

Proverbs 3:2
Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.

Proverbs 3:16
Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.

Proverbs 9:6
He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself; and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.

Proverbs 10:27
The expectation of the just is joy: but the hope of the wicked shall perish.

Proverbs 9:10
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