Proverbs 9:5-7
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
5 ‘Come, eat my bread,(A)
and drink the wine I have mixed.
6 Leave inexperience behind, and you will live;
pursue the way of understanding.
7 The one who corrects a mocker
will bring abuse on himself;
the one who rebukes the wicked will get hurt.[a]
Footnotes
- 9:7 Lit man: his blemish
Proverbs 9:5-7
New King James Version
5 “Come,(A) eat of my bread
And drink of the wine I have mixed.
6 Forsake foolishness and live,
And go in the way of understanding.
7 “He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself,
And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself.
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