Parallel Verses

Amplified


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

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

Holman Bible

The woman Folly is rowdy;
she is gullible and knows nothing.

International Standard Version

The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and without knowledge.

A Conservative Version

The foolish woman is clamorous, simple, and knows nothing.

American Standard Version

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

Bible in Basic English

The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

A woman of folly being noisy, simple, and she knew not anything.

King James 2000

A foolish woman is boisterous: she is simple, and knows nothing.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A woman of foolishness is loud, simple, and does not know {it}.

Modern King James verseion

A foolish woman is noisy; she is simple and knows nothing.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A foolish restless woman, full of words, and such one as hath no knowledge,

NET Bible

The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.

New Heart English Bible

The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

The Emphasized Bible

The woman Stupidity, is boisterous, so simple that she knoweth not what she would do;

Webster

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

World English Bible

The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

Youngs Literal Translation

A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּסילוּת 
K@ciyluwth 
Usage: 1

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

she is simple
פּתיּוּת 
P@thayuwth 
Usage: 1

and
בּל 
Bal 
none, not, nor, lest, nothing, not, neither, no
Usage: 69

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Foolishness' Banquet

12
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself [for your own benefit];
If you scoff [thoughtlessly ridicule and disdain], you alone will pay the penalty.
13 
The foolish woman is restless and noisy;
She is naive and easily misled and thoughtless, and knows nothing at all [of eternal value].
14
She sits at the doorway of her house,
On a seat by the high and conspicuous places of the city,



Cross References

Proverbs 7:11


She was boisterous and rebellious;
She would not stay at home.

Proverbs 5:6


So that she does not think [seriously] about the path of life;
Her ways are aimless and unstable; you cannot know where her path leads.

Proverbs 21:9


It is better to live in a corner of the housetop [on the flat roof, exposed to the weather]
Than in a house shared with a quarrelsome (contentious) woman.

Proverbs 21:19


It is better to dwell in a desert land
Than with a contentious and troublesome woman.

1 Timothy 6:4

he is conceited and woefully ignorant [understanding nothing]. He has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, which produces envy, quarrels, verbal abuse, evil suspicions,

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