Proverbs 9:13
Modern Translations
New International Version
Folly is an unruly woman; she is simple and knows nothing.

New Living Translation
The woman named Folly is brash. She is ignorant and doesn’t know it.

English Standard Version
The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.

Berean Study Bible
The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.

New American Standard Bible
A woman of foolishness is boisterous, She has a lack of understanding and knows nothing.

NASB 1995
The woman of folly is boisterous, She is naive and knows nothing.

NASB 1977
The woman of folly is boisterous, She is naive, and knows nothing.

Amplified Bible
The foolish woman is restless and noisy; She is naive and easily misled and thoughtless, and knows nothing at all [of eternal value].

Christian Standard Bible
Folly is a rowdy woman; she is gullible and knows nothing.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The woman Folly is rowdy; she is gullible and knows nothing.

Contemporary English Version
Stupidity is reckless, senseless, and foolish.

Good News Translation
Stupidity is like a loud, ignorant, shameless woman.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The woman Stupidity is loud, gullible, and ignorant.

International Standard Version
The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and without knowledge.

NET Bible
The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

New King James Version
A foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knows nothing.

King James 2000 Bible
A foolish woman is boisterous: she is simple, and knows nothing.

New Heart English Bible
The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

World English Bible
The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

American King James Version
A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knows nothing.

American Standard Version
The foolish woman is clamorous;'she is'simple, and knoweth nothing.

A Faithful Version
A foolish woman is clamorous; she is simple and knows nothing.

Darby Bible Translation
The foolish woman is clamorous; she is stupid, and knoweth nothing.

English Revised Version
The foolish woman is clamorous; she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

Webster's Bible Translation
A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
A foolish woman is troublesome: she is ignorant, and knoweth nothing.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
A foolishe retchlesse woman full of wordes, and suche a one as hath no knowledge,

Coverdale Bible of 1535
A foolish restlesse woman, full of wordes, and soch one as hath no knowlege,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
A foolish woman [is] noisy, "" Simple, and has not known what.

Young's Literal Translation
A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.

Smith's Literal Translation
A woman of folly being noisy, simple, and she knew not anything.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,

Catholic Public Domain Version
A foolish and loud woman, who is full of enticements and who knows nothing at all,

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
A woman deficient in mind is alluring and she knows no shame.

Lamsa Bible
He who denies things falsely feeds on winds and pursues fowl of the air; for he has forsaken the way to his vineyard and the paths of his labor, to journey in the wilderness without water; in the places that are trodden he travels thirsty and gains nothing.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The woman Folly is riotous; She is thoughtless, and knoweth nothing.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A foolish and bold woman, who knows not modesty, comes to want a morsel.
















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