Proverbs 9:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

A foolish woman is loud: she is simple, and knows nothing.

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  • Prov 7:11 : 11 She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at home:
  • Prov 5:6 : 6 Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them.
  • Prov 21:9 : 9 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a spacious house with a contentious woman.
  • Prov 21:19 : 19 It is better to live in the wilderness than with a contentious and angry woman.
  • 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

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  • Prov 9:14-16
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    14For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

    15To call those who pass by who go straight on their ways:

    16Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 7:11-12
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    11She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at home:

    12Sometimes she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

  • 1Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her hands.

  • Prov 9:3-4
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    3She has sent out her maidens: she cries out on the highest places of the city,

    4Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 1:20-22
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    20Wisdom cries out outside; she raises her voice in the streets;

    21She cries out in the chief places of concourse, at the openings of the gates; she speaks her words in the city, saying,

    22"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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    13A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

    14House and riches are the inheritance of fathers, and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

  • 9It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a spacious house with a contentious woman.

  • Prov 14:6-8
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    6A scorner seeks wisdom and does not find it, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

    7Leave the presence of a foolish man, when you do not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

    8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

  • 12If you are wise, you will be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.

  • 16Every prudent man deals with knowledge, but a fool lays open his folly.

  • 9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

  • 7Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the gate.

  • 22As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a lovely woman without discretion.

  • 15A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

  • 9If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rages or laughs, there is no rest.

  • 23A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

  • 17Because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has He imparted to her understanding.

  • 16A wise man fears and departs from evil, but the fool rages and is confident.

  • 19It is better to live in the wilderness than with a contentious and angry woman.

  • 6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

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    13The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

    14A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

    15The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he does not know how to go to the city.

  • 18The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

  • 21Folly is joy to him who is destitute of wisdom, but a man of understanding walks uprightly.

  • 5O simple ones, understand wisdom; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.

  • 25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • 33Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the heart of fools is made known.

  • 6A senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.

  • 17The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rules among fools.

  • 3Yes, also, when he that is a fool walks by the way, his wisdom fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

  • 8The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a prating fool shall fall.

  • 11A fool utters all his mind; but a wise man keeps it in till afterward.

  • 2She stands on the top of high places, by the way where the paths meet.

  • 14Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

  • 24It is better to dwell in the corner of a housetop than in a wide house with a contentious woman.

  • 26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.

  • 2A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may express itself.

  • 6Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them.

  • 27For a prostitute is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

  • 22He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;