Proverbs 9:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

To call to them that pass by, Who go right on their ways:

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Prov 7:13-15 : 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an impudent face she said unto him: 14 Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows. 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Prov 7:25-27 : 25 Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths. 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host. 27 Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
Prov 23:27-28 : 27 For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit. 28 Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Prov 9:16
83%
16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; And as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
Prov 9:13-14
2 verses
82%
13The foolish woman is clamorous; [She is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
14And she sitteth at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,
Prov 9:1-6
6 verses
81%
1Wisdom hath builded her house; She hath hewn out her seven pillars:
2She hath killed her beasts; She hath mingled her wine; She hath also furnished her table:
3She hath sent forth her maidens; She crieth upon the highest places of the city:
4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
5Come, eat ye of my bread, And drink of the wine which I have mingled.
6Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.
Prov 8:1-4
4 verses
77%
1Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?
2On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;
3Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
4Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.
Prov 1:20-21
2 verses
77%
20Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
Prov 7:5-8
4 verses
77%
5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
6For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
7And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,
8Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,
Prov 7:10-12
3 verses
75%
10And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
11(She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:
12Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)
Prov 7:25
74%
25Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.
Prov 2:18-20
3 verses
72%
18For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
19None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.
Prov 3:17-18
2 verses
71%
17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.
18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.
Prov 5:6
71%
6So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.
Prov 5:8
71%
8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;
Prov 4:14-15
2 verses
70%
14Enter not into the path of the wicked, And walk not in the way of evil men.
15Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
Job 21:29
70%
29Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,
Prov 8:34
70%
34Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.
Prov 7:27
70%
27Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
Prov 1:15
69%
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:
Job 29:7
69%
7When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
Prov 2:15-16
2 verses
69%
15Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
16To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
Prov 10:9
69%
9He that walketh uprightly walketh surely; But he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
Prov 7:22
68%
22He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;
Hos 14:9
68%
9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.
Isa 30:21
68%
21and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Prov 8:20
68%
20I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;
Prov 16:17
67%
17The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
Job 22:15
67%
15Wilt thou keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden?
Prov 2:9
67%
9Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, [yea], every good path.
Prov 8:9
67%
9They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.
Jer 17:19
67%
19Thus said Jehovah unto me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
Ezek 16:32
67%
32A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!