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Proverbs 9:13

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

KJV

Mulier stulta et clamosa, plenaque illecebris, et nihil omnino sciens,

Vulgate

Γυνὴ ἄφρων καὶ θρασεῖα ἐνδεὴς ψωμοῦ γίνεται, ἣ οὐκ ἐπίσταται αἰσχύνην·

LXX

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

ASV

אֵ֣שֶׁת כְּ֭סִילוּת הֹֽמִיָּ֑ה פְּ֝תַיּ֗וּת וּ/בַל יָ֥דְעָה מָּֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בַּל
bl
particle · 72×
וֹ
v
noun · 780×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
כְּ֭סִילוּת
ksylvt
noun · 1×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
ן
n
verb · 33×
פְּ֝תַיּ֗וּת
ptyvt
noun · 1×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth years of his age, passed at Carthage, when, having completed his course of studies, he is caught in the snares of a licentious passion, and falls into the errors of the Manichæans. Chapter 1. Deluded by an Insane Love, He, Though Foul and Dishonourable, Desires to Be Thought Elegant and Urbane. 1. To Carthage I came, where a cauldr…

Cross-references

  • 1Tim 6:4 — He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
  • Ezek 16:30 — How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
  • Gen 39:8 — But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
  • Prov 5:6 — Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
  • Prov 7:11 — (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
  • Prov 7:11 — (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
  • Prov 11:22 — As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
  • Prov 14:1 — Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
  • Prov 21:19 — It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.