Proverbs 2:11

Amplified Bible

Discretion will watch over you, Understanding and discernment will guard you,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Discretion will watch over you,and understanding will guard you.

Hebrew Names Version
Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

King James Version
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

English Standard Version
discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,

New Century Version
Good sense will protect you; understanding will guard you.

New English Translation
Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,

New American Standard Bible
Discretion will watch over you, Understanding will guard you,

World English Bible
Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,

Legacy Standard Bible
Discretion will keep you,Discernment will guard you,

Berean Standard Bible
Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

Contemporary English Version
Sound judgment and good sense will watch over you.

Complete Jewish Bible
discretion will watch over you, and discernment will guard you.

Darby Translation
discretion shall keep thee, understanding shall preserve thee:

Easy-to-Read Version
Planning ahead will protect you, and understanding will guard you.

George Lamsa Translation
Intelligence shall preserve you, and the understanding of the pious men shall deliver you;

Good News Translation
Your insight and understanding will protect you

Lexham English Bible
Discretion will watch over you; understanding will protect you,

Literal Translation
discretion shall keep you, understanding shall watch over you,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
then shal councell preserue the, and vnderstondinge shal kepe the.

American Standard Version
Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

Bible in Basic English
Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Discretion shall watch over thee, discernment shall guard thee;

King James Version (1611)
Discretion shall preserue thee, vnderstanding shall keepe thee:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then shall counsayle preserue thee, and vnderstandyng shall kepe thee,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
good counsel shall guard thee, and holy understanding shall keep thee;

English Revised Version
Discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
good councel schal kepe thee, and prudence schal kepe thee; that thou be delyuered fro an yuel weie,

Update Bible Version
Discretion shall watch over you; Understanding shall keep you:

Webster's Bible Translation
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

New King James Version
Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you,

New Living Translation
Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe.

New Life Bible
Good thinking will keep you safe. Understanding will watch over you.

New Revised Standard
prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Discretion, shall watch over thee, understanding, shall preserve thee: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

Revised Standard Version
discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you;

Young's Literal Translation
Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰For [skillful and godly] wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. ¹¹Discretion will watch over you, Understanding and discernment will guard you,¹²To keep you from the way of evil and the evil man, From the man who speaks perverse things; ¹³From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness; ¹⁴Who find joy in doing evil And delight in the perversity of evil, ¹⁵Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways; ¹⁶To keep you from the immoral woman; From the seductress with her flattering words, ¹⁷Who leaves the companion (husband) of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God. ¹⁸For her house leads down to death And her paths lead to the dead; ¹⁹None who go to her return again, Nor do they regain the paths of life—

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 4:6, Proverbs 6:22-24, Psalms 25:21, Psalms 119:9-11, Ecclesiastes 9:15-18, Ecclesiastes 10:10, Ephesians 5:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:7 - and he Genesis 32:16 - space Deuteronomy 6:6 - shall be Nehemiah 8:12 - because Psalms 119:11 - Thy word Proverbs 4:14 - General Proverbs 12:1 - loveth Ecclesiastes 7:12 - wisdom Ezekiel 3:3 - it was Philippians 4:7 - shall

Cross-References

Genesis 10:7
the sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah; Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10:29
and Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

Genesis 25:18
Ishmael's sons (descendants) settled from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt as one goes toward Assyria; he settled opposite (east) of all his relatives.

1 Samuel 15:7
Saul defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Discretion shall preserve thee,.... Which wisdom or the Gospel gives, or the Lord by the means of it; for the Gospel makes a man wise and discreet in the business of salvation, and in his conduct and deportment; and the discretion it gives him will put him upon his guard, and direct him to watch against every error, and every false way. And so the words may be rendered, "discretion will watch over thee"; to keep thee from everything pernicious in doctrine and practice. The Septuagint version renders it, "good counsel"; which wisdom gives, and the Gospel is full of; and which, if attended to, is a means of the preservation of the saints;

understanding shall keep thee; which is only the same thing expressed in other words. The Septuagint version renders it, "an holy thought"; and the Arabic version, "a just thought shall preserve thee in thy last times". What these are a means of keeping and preserving from is explained in the following verses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 2:11. Discretion shall preserve thee — מזמה mezimmah. See on Proverbs 1:4. Here the word is taken in a good sense, a good device. The man invents purposes of good; and all his schemes, plans, and devices, have for their object God's glory and the good of man: he deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things he shall stand. Coverdale translates, "Then shall COUNSEL preserve thee." A very good translation, much better than the present.