Proverbs 15:24
Modern Translations
New International Version
The path of life leads upward for the prudent to keep them from going down to the realm of the dead.

New Living Translation
The path of life leads upward for the wise; they leave the grave behind.

English Standard Version
The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.

Berean Study Bible
The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

New American Standard Bible
The path of life leads upward for the wise, So that he may keep away from Sheol below.

NASB 1995
The path of life leads upward for the wise That he may keep away from Sheol below.

NASB 1977
The path of life leads upward for the wise, That he may keep away from Sheol below.

Amplified Bible
The [chosen] path of life leads upward for the wise, That he may keep away from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) below.

Christian Standard Bible
For the prudent the path of life leads upward, so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the discerning the path of life leads upward, so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

Contemporary English Version
All who are wise follow a road that leads upward to life and away from death.

Good News Translation
Wise people walk the road that leads upward to life, not the road that leads downward to death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The path of life for a wise person leads upward in order to turn him away from hell below.

International Standard Version
The way of life leads upward for the wise so he may avoid Sheol below.

NET Bible
The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

New King James Version
The way of life winds upward for the wise, That he may turn away from hell below.

King James 2000 Bible
The way of life leads above to the wise, that he may depart from sheol beneath.

New Heart English Bible
The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

World English Bible
The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

American King James Version
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

American Standard Version
To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.

A Faithful Version
The path of life leads upward for the wise, so that he may turn away from the pit below.

Darby Bible Translation
The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

English Revised Version
To the wise the way of life goeth upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

Webster's Bible Translation
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The way of life is on high to the prudent, to auoyde from hell beneath.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The way of lyfe is on hygh to the wise, that a man shoulde beware of hell beneath.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The waye of life ledeth vnto heaue, yt a man shulde bewarre of hell beneth.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
A path of life [is] on high for the wise, "" To turn aside from Sheol beneath.

Young's Literal Translation
A path of life is on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.

Smith's Literal Translation
The path of life is above to the understanding one, to depart from hades below.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from the lowest hell.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The path of life is for the wise above, so that he may turn away from the end of Hell.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The Way of Life is an ascent to the understanding one, to turn away from Sheol beneath.

Lamsa Bible
The way of life leads upward for the wise, that he may depart from the depths of Sheol.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The path of life goeth upward for the wise, that he may depart from the nether-world beneath.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from hell.
















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