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Proverbs 9:9

Context

9:9 Give instruction 1  to a wise person, 2  and he will become wiser still;

teach 3  a righteous person and he will add to his 4  learning.

1 tn The noun “instruction” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation.

2 sn The parallelism shows what Proverbs will repeatedly stress, that the wise person is the righteous person.

3 tn The Hiphil verb normally means “to cause to know, make known”; but here the context suggests “to teach” (so many English versions).

4 tn The term “his” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for the sake of smoothness and clarity.



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