New Revised Standard Version
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, so that one may avoid the snares of death.

Contemporary English Version
Sensible instruction is a life-giving fountain that helps you escape all deadly traps.

New American Bible
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.

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Proverbs 9:11 If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.

Proverbs 10:11 Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity covereth all sins.

Proverbs 14:27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the ruin of death.

Proverbs 16:22 Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesseth it: the instruction of fools is foolishness.

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Proverbs 15:24 The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from the lowest hell.

Proverbs 16:6,17 By mercy and truth iniquity is redeemed; and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil. . . .

2 Samuel 22:6,7 The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me. . . .

Psalm 18:5 The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.

Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow: