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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
ארח חיים למעלה למשכיל-- למען סור משאול מטה
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
ArKH KHyym lm`lh lmSHkyl-- lm`n svr mSHAvl mth

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
semita vitae super eruditum ut declinet de inferno novissimo

King James Variants
American King James Version   
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
The way of life leads above to the wise, that he may depart from sheol beneath.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Authorized (King James) Version   
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
New King James Version   
The way of life winds upward for the wise, That he may turn away from hell below.
21st Century King James Version   
The path of life is upward for the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
The Way of Life is an ascent to the understanding one, to turn away from Sheol beneath.
Darby Bible Translation   
The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from the lowest hell.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
To the wise the way of life goeth upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.
God's Word   
The path of life for a wise person leads upward in order to turn him away from hell below.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
For the discerning the path of life leads upward, so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.
International Standard Version   
The way of life leads upward for the wise so he may avoid Sheol below.
NET Bible   
The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
New American Standard Bible   
The path of life leads upward for the wise That he may keep away from Sheol below.
New International Version   
The path of life leads upward for the prudent to keep them from going down to the realm of the dead.
New Living Translation   
The path of life leads upward for the wise; they leave the grave behind.
Webster's Bible Translation   
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
The World English Bible   
The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
EasyEnglish Bible   
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.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
A path of life [is] on high for the wise, To turn aside from Sheol beneath.
New Life Version   
The path of life leads up for the wise, so he may keep away from hell below.
The Voice Bible   
For the wise the road of life climbs up steep grades in order to avoid the slide down to the grave.
Living Bible   
The road of the godly leads upward, leaving hell behind.
New Catholic Bible   
The path of life leads upward for the prudent man so that he may escape going down to the netherworld.
Legacy Standard Bible   
The path of life leads upward for the one who has insight That he may turn away from Sheol below.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
The way of life is uphill to the wise, that he may separate himself from Sheol below.
Christian Standard Bible   
For the prudent the path of life leads upward, so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
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).
New Century Version   
Wise people’s lives get better and better. They avoid whatever would cause their death.
The Message   
Life ascends to the heights for the thoughtful— it’s a clean about-face from descent into hell.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
The path of life leads upward for a person with insight, so that he may turn away from hell below.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For the wise the path of life leads upward, in order to avoid Sheol below.
Good News Translation®   
Wise people walk the road that leads upward to life, not the road that leads downward to death.
Wycliffe Bible   
The path of life is on a learned man; that he bow away from the last hell. (The path of life leadeth upward for the learned; yea, so that they turn away from Sheol, or the land of the dead/so that they turn away from hell, which is below.)
Contemporary English Version   
All who are wise follow a road that leads upward to life and away from death.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
The wise man’s path leads upward to life, that he may avoid Sheol beneath.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
For the wise the path of life leads upward, in order to avoid Sheol below.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
For the wise the path of life leads upwards, in order to avoid Sheol below.
Common English Bible © 2011   
For those with insight, life is an upward path, avoiding the grave below.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
The [chosen] path of life leads upward for the wise, That he may keep away from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) below.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
The path of life leads upwards for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
The path of life leads upward for the prudent, turning them from Sheol below.
New American Standard Bible   
The path of life leads upward for the wise, So that he may keep away from Sheol below.
The Expanded Bible   
·Wise [Insightful] people’s ·lives [L way] ·get better and better [move upward]. They ·avoid whatever would cause their death [L turn aside from Sheol/the grave below].
Tree of Life Version   
The path of life leads upward for the wise to keep him from going down to Sheol.
Revised Standard Version   
The wise man’s path leads upward to life, that he may avoid Sheol beneath.
New International Reader's Version   
The path of life leads up for those who are wise. It keeps them from going down to the place of the dead.
BRG Bible   
The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Complete Jewish Bible   
For the prudent, the path of life goes upward; thus he avoids Sh’ol below.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
For the wise the path of life leads upwards, in order to avoid Sheol below.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
The Orach Chayyim leads upward to the wise, in order that he may depart from Sheol beneath.
Names of God Bible   
The path of life for a wise person leads upward in order to turn him away from hell below.
Modern English Version   
The way of life leads above for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol below.
Easy-to-Read Version   
What wise people do leads to life here on earth and stops them from going down to the place of death.
International Children’s Bible   
A wise person does things that will make his life better. He avoids whatever would cause his death.
Lexham English Bible   
The path of life leads upward for him who has insight, in order to turn away from Sheol below.
New International Version - UK   
The path of life leads upward for the prudent to keep them from going down to the realm of the dead.