Exodus 18:24

18:24 Moses listened to ¹  his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

Proverbs 9:9

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.

[18:24]  ¹ tn The idiom “listen to the voice of” means “obey, comply with, heed.”

[9:9]  ² tn The noun “instruction” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation.

[9:9]  ³ sn The parallelism shows what Proverbs will repeatedly stress, that the wise person is the righteous person.

[9:9]  ⁴ tn The Hiphil verb normally means “to cause to know, make known”; but here the context suggests “to teach” (so many English versions).

[9:9]  ⁵ tn The term “his” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for the sake of smoothness and clarity.