Proverbs 9:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Proverbs 9:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 4:11
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
Luke 13:24
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
2 Corinthians 6:17
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Proverbs 4:14-15
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

Wisdom is here introduced as a magnificent and munificent queen, very great and very generous; that Word of God is this Wisdom in which God makes known his goodwill towards men; God the Word is this Wisdom, to whom the Father has committed all judgment. He who, in the chapter before, showed his grandeur and glory as the Creator of the world, here shows his grace and goodness as the Redeemer of it.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

4-6. (Compare Pr 1:4; 6:32). Wisdom not only supplies right but forbids wrong principles.