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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
תורת חכם מקור חיים-- לסור ממקשי מות
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
tvrt KHkm mqvr KHyym-- lsvr mmqSHy mvt

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
lex sapientis fons vitae ut declinet a ruina mortis

King James Variants
American King James Version   
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Authorized (King James) Version   
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
New King James Version   
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn one away from the snares of death.
21st Century King James Version   
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to turn him from the snares of death.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, That one may depart from the snares of death.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
The law of wisdom is a fountain of life to those who turn from the snares of death.
Darby Bible Translation   
The teaching of the wise man is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.
God's Word   
The teachings of a wise person are a fountain of life to turn [one] away from the grasp of death.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
A wise man's instruction is a fountain of life, turning people away from the snares of death.
International Standard Version   
What the wise have to teach is a fountain of life and causes someone to avoid the snares of death.
NET Bible   
Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, to turn a person from deadly snares.
New American Standard Bible   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from the snares of death.
New International Version   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death.
New Living Translation   
The instruction of the wise is like a life-giving fountain; those who accept it avoid the snares of death.
Webster's Bible Translation   
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
The World English Bible   
The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.
EasyEnglish Bible   
The teaching of wise people is like a spring of water that gives life. It will keep you away from death's dangerous traps.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.
New Life Version   
The teaching of the wise is a well of life, to save one from the nets of death.
The Voice Bible   
Wise instruction is a spring yielding a satisfied life; those who follow it avoid the traps that lead to death.
Living Bible   
The advice of a wise man refreshes like water from a mountain spring. Those accepting it become aware of the pitfalls on ahead.
New Catholic Bible   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life enabling one to avoid the snares of death.
Legacy Standard Bible   
The instruction of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from the snares of death.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Christian Standard Bible   
A wise person’s instruction is a fountain of life, turning people away from the snares of death.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.
New Century Version   
The teaching of a wise person gives life. It is like a fountain that can save people from death.
The Message   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, so, no more drinking from death-tainted wells!
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
The teaching of a wise person is a fountain of life. It can turn someone away from the snares of death.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, so that one may avoid the snares of death.
Good News Translation®   
The teachings of the wise are a fountain of life; they will help you escape when your life is in danger.
Wycliffe Bible   
The law of a wise man is a well of life; that he bow away from the falling of death, that is, of sin, and of hell. (The teaching of the wise is a well of life; so that thou bow away from the falling of death, that is, from sin, and from hell.)
Contemporary English Version   
Sensible instruction is a life-giving fountain that helps you escape all deadly traps.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, so that one may avoid the snares of death.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, so that one may avoid the snares of death.
Common English Bible © 2011   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a person away from deathtraps.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain and source of life, So that one may avoid the snares of death.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.
New American Standard Bible   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from the snares of death.
The Expanded Bible   
The teaching of a wise person ·gives life [L is a fountain of life] ·and can save people from death [L turning people aside from death traps/snares].
Tree of Life Version   
Wise instruction is a fountain of life, turning one away from snares of death.
Revised Standard Version   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.
New International Reader's Version   
The teaching of wise people is like a fountain that gives life. It turns those who listen to it away from the jaws of death.
BRG Bible   
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Complete Jewish Bible   
The teaching of a wise man is a fountain of life, enabling one to avoid deadly traps.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, so that one may avoid the snares of death.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
The torat chacham (teaching of the wise) is a makor chayyim (fountain of life), to turn one away from the snares of mavet.
Names of God Bible   
The teachings of a wise person are a fountain of life to turn one away from the grasp of death.
Modern English Version   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Easy-to-Read Version   
The teaching of the wise is a source of life; their words will save you from deadly traps.
International Children’s Bible   
The teaching of a wise person gives life. It is like a fountain of water that can save people from death.
Lexham English Bible   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, in order to avoid the snares of death.
New International Version - UK   
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death.