Proverbs 15:24 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

A path of life [is] on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.

English ASV

To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.

English Amplified

The path of the wise leads upward to life, that he may avoid [the gloom] in the depths of Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead). [Phil. 3:20; Col. 3:1, 2.]

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

The path of the wise leads upward to life, that he may avoid [the gloom] in the depths of Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead). [Phil. 3:20; Col. 3:1, 2.]

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

For the prudent the path of life leads upward, so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

English EASY 2024

A wise person walks on a path that leads him up to a long life. He keeps away from the path that would lead him down to death.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

What wise people do leads to life here on earth and stops them from going down to the place of death.

The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Wise people walk the road that leads upward to life, not the road that leads downward to death.

English God's Word - GW 1995

The path of life for a wise person leads upward in order to turn him away from hell below.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

For the discerning the path of life leads upward, so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

English KJV 1611

The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

English LSB

The path of life leads upward for the one who has insight That he may turn away from Sheol below.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

The way of life leads upward for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol below.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

The path of life leads upward for the wise That he may keep away from Sheol below.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

The path of life leads the prudent man upward, that he may avoid the nether world below.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

The path of life leads up for those who are wise. It keeps them from going down to the grave.

English NIV

The path of life leads upward for the wise to keep him from going down to the grave.

English NKJ 1982

The way of life winds upward for the wise, That he may turn away from hell below.

English NLT

The path of the wise leads to life above; they leave the grave behind.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

For the wise the path of life leads upward, in order to avoid Sheol below.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

The life-paths of the prudent lift them progressively heavenward, delivering them from the death spirals that keep tugging them downward.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

The wise man's path leads upward to life, that he may avoid Sheol beneath.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

The road of the godly leads upward, leaving hell behind.

English Tyndale 1537

The way of life leadeth unto heaven, that a man should beware of hell beneath.

Proverbs 15:24 — Compare Translations