Proverbs 9:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:32 : 32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
  • Prov 9:16 : 16 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 ¶ At that time Jesus answered and said, ‹I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.›
  • Prov 8:5 : 5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
  • Ps 19:7 : 7 ¶ The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.
  • Ps 119:130 : 130 ¶ The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Rev 3:17-18 : 17 ‹Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:› 18 ‹I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and› [that] ‹the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.›
  • Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Prov 9:13-16
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    13¶ A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.

    14For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

    15To call passengers who go right on their ways:

    16Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

  • Prov 9:5-6
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    83%

    5Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine [which] I have mingled.

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

  • Prov 9:1-3
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    81%

    1¶ Wisdom 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,

  • Prov 1:20-23
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    20¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

    21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],

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

    23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

  • Prov 8:1-5
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    1¶ Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

    2She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

    3She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

    4Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice [is] to the sons of man.

    5O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

  • Prov 7:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7And 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 7:11-12
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    11(She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

    12Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

  • Prov 1:4-5
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    4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

    5A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

  • Prov 7:25
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    25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

  • Prov 4:5-8
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    5Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

    6Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

    7Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

    8Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

  • Prov 7:21-22
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    21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

    22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

  • Prov 1:32
    73%

    32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

  • Prov 7:4-5
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    4Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:

    5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

  • Song 1:8
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    8If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.

  • Prov 5:6
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    6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].

  • Prov 14:15
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    15¶ The simple believeth every word: but the prudent [man] looketh well to his going.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    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 2:4
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    4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;

  • Prov 2:18
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    18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

  • Prov 14:1
    70%

    1¶ Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

  • Prov 14:8
    70%

    8¶ The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit.

  • Prov 8:9
    70%

    9They [are] all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

  • Prov 2:16
    70%

    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • Prov 8:34
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    34Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

  • Prov 2:2
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    2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;

  • Prov 16:22
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    22¶ Understanding [is] a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is] folly.