Bible in Basic English
"(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)"
— Proverbs 1:5, Bible in Basic English
“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:”
“That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels: ”
“that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:”
“(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)”
To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:
To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)
To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother: