Proverbs Chapter 4 verse 11 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 4:11

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in paths of uprightness.
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BBE Proverbs 4:11

I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.
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DARBY Proverbs 4:11

I will teach thee in the way of wisdom, I will lead thee in paths of uprightness.
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KJV Proverbs 4:11

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
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WBT Proverbs 4:11


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WEB Proverbs 4:11

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.
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YLT Proverbs 4:11

In a way of wisdom I have directed thee, I have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness.
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Proverbs 4 : 11 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - The perfects, I have taught and I have led, in the original seem to have here the absolute signification of the past. The father recalls the instruction which he has given in times past. So Delitzsch. But Gejerus gives them the combined force of the past and future, "I have taught and I will more fully teach," and so with the other verb. The Vulgate renders, monstrabo, "I will show," and ducam, "I will lead." In the way of wisdom (b'derek khok'mah) may mean "in the way that leads to, or by which you come to Wisdom; I have taught you the manner in which Wisdom may be attained;" or "the way in which Wisdom walks" (Zockler). The ways of Wisdom are described in Proverbs 3:17 as "ways of pleasantness." The next clause seems to indicate that the latter explanation is to be preferred. The (b) indicates the subject in which instruction has been given. In right paths (b'ma'g'le yosher); literally, in the paths of rectitude; i.e. of straightness, paths of which the characteristic is uprightness. (On "paths," as signifying a carriageway, see Proverbs 2:9.) Instruction and direction have formed the two elements in the father's teaching. These present us with a model of education. "To teach duty without truth is to teach practice without motive; to teach truth without duty is to teach motive without the practice to which it should lead" (Wardlaw).

Ellicott's Commentary