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
She is
King James Version
A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
Holman Bible
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
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 9:13
Verse Info
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.
The foolish woman is restless and noisy;
She is naive and easily misled and thoughtless, and knows nothing at all [of eternal value].
She sits at the doorway of her house,
On a seat by the high and conspicuous places of the city,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 7:11
She was boisterous and rebellious;
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,