18:24 Moses listened to 1 his father-in-law and did everything he had said.
9:9 Give instruction 2 to a wise person, 3 and he will become wiser still;
teach 4 a righteous person and he will add to his 5 learning.
1 tn The idiom “listen to the voice of” means “obey, comply with, heed.”
2 tn The noun “instruction” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation.
3 sn The parallelism shows what Proverbs will repeatedly stress, that the wise person is the righteous person.
4 tn The Hiphil verb normally means “to cause to know, make known”; but here the context suggests “to teach” (so many English versions).
5 tn The term “his” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for the sake of smoothness and clarity.