Proverbs 13:14
New International Version
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death.

New Living Translation
The instruction of the wise is like a life-giving fountain; those who accept it avoid the snares of death.

English Standard Version
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.

Berean Standard Bible
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.

King James Bible
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

New King James Version
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn one away from the snares of death.

New American Standard Bible
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from the snares of death.

NASB 1995
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from the snares of death.

NASB 1977
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from the snares of death.

Legacy Standard Bible
The instruction of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from the snares of death.

Amplified Bible
The teaching of the wise is a fountain and source of life, So that one may avoid the snares of death.

Christian Standard Bible
A wise person’s instruction is a fountain of life, turning people away from the snares of death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A wise man’s instruction is a fountain of life, turning people away from the snares of death.

American Standard Version
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, That one may depart from the snares of death.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The law of wisdom is a fountain of life to those who turn from the snares of death.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The law of the wise is fountain of life: but the man void of understanding shall die by a snare.

Contemporary English Version
Sensible instruction is a life-giving fountain that helps you escape all deadly traps.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.

English Revised Version
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The teachings of a wise person are a fountain of life to turn [one] away from the grasp of death.

Good News Translation
The teachings of the wise are a fountain of life; they will help you escape when your life is in danger.

International Standard Version
What the wise have to teach is a fountain of life and causes someone to avoid the snares of death.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, To depart from the snares of death.

Literal Standard Version
The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life, | To turn aside from snares of death.

Majority Standard Bible
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.

New American Bible
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.

NET Bible
Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, to turn a person from deadly snares.

New Revised Standard Version
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, so that one may avoid the snares of death.

New Heart English Bible
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

Webster's Bible Translation
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

World English Bible
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

Young's Literal Translation
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.

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Context
A Father's Discipline
13He who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but the one who respects a command will be rewarded. 14The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death. 15Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the faithless is difficult.…

Cross References
Psalm 18:5
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Proverbs 14:27
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.


Treasury of Scripture

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

law

Proverbs 9:11
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 14:27
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

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Proverbs 15:24
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

Proverbs 16:6,17
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil…

2 Samuel 22:6,7
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; …

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(14) The law of the wise.--Or, rather, his instruction. (Comp. Proverbs 10:11.)

Snares of death.--Set by the devil (2Timothy 2:26).

Verse 14. - The law (instruction) of the wise is a fountain of life (Proverbs 10:11), which has and imparts life (Ecclus. 21:13; Psalm 36:9). The rules and teaching of wise men are a source of life to those who follow them, so that they depart from the snares of death (Proverbs 14:27). Obedience to good teaching saves from many dangers, material and spiritual, especially from the snare of the devil (2 Timothy 2:26). With "snares of death" we may compare Psalm 18:5 and Horace's ('Carm.,' 3:24. 8)

"Non mortis laqueis expedies caput." Septuagint, "The fool shall perish by the snare."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The teaching
תּוֹרַ֣ת (tō·w·raṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law

of the wise
חָ֭כָם (ḥā·ḵām)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2450: Wise

is a fountain
מְק֣וֹר (mə·qō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4726: Something dug, a, source, of happiness, wisdom, progeny)

of life,
חַיִּ֑ים (ḥay·yîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

turning one
לָ֝ס֗וּר (lā·sūr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5493: To turn aside

from the snares
מִמֹּ֥קְשֵׁי (mim·mō·qə·šê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4170: A bait or lure, a snare

of death.
מָֽוֶת׃ (mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin


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