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Proverbs 2:9

Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Integrity;   Personification;   Righteous;   Righteousness;   Wisdom;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Paths, Right;   Right;   The Topic Concordance - Understanding;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Justice;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then you will understand righteousness, justice,and integrity—every good path.
Hebrew Names Version
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path.
King James Version
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
English Standard Version
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
New Century Version
Then you will understand what is honest and fair and what is the good and right thing to do.
New English Translation
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity—every good way.
Amplified Bible
Then you will understand righteousness and justice [in every circumstance] And integrity and every good path.
New American Standard Bible
Then you will discern righteousness, justice, And integrity, and every good path.
World English Bible
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then you will understand righteousness and justiceAnd equity—every good track.
Berean Standard Bible
Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity-every good path.
Contemporary English Version
With wisdom you will learn what is right and honest and fair.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then you will understand righteousness, justice, fairness and every good path.
Darby Translation
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity: every good path.
Easy-to-Read Version
If you listen to him, you will understand what is just and fair and how to do what is right.
George Lamsa Translation
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and the uprightness of all good ways.
Good News Translation
If you listen to me, you will know what is right, just, and fair. You will know what you should do.
Lexham English Bible
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness—every good course—
Literal Translation
Then you shall understand righteousness and judgment and honesty, yea , every good path.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then shalt thou vnderstonde rightuousnesse, iudgment and equite, yee and euery good path.
American Standard Version
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, yea, every good path.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity, yea, every good path.
King James Version (1611)
Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnesse, and iudgement, and equity; yea euery good path.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then shalt thou vnderstande righteousnesse, and iudgement, and equitie, yea and euery good path.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgement; and shalt direct all thy course aright.
English Revised Version
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment, and equity, yea, every good path.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thanne thou schalt vndirstonde riytfulnesse, and dom, and equytee, and ech good path.
Update Bible Version
Then you shall understand righteousness and justice, And equity, [yes], every good path.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [and] every good path.
New King James Version
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path.
New Living Translation
Then you will understand what is right, just, and fair, and you will find the right way to go.
New Life Bible
Then you will understand what is right and good, and right from wrong, and you will know what you should do.
New Revised Standard
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then, shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity - every noble course.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
Revised Standard Version
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Young's Literal Translation
Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path.
THE MESSAGE
So now you can pick out what's true and fair, find all the good trails! Lady Wisdom will be your close friend, and Brother Knowledge your pleasant companion. Good Sense will scout ahead for danger, Insight will keep an eye out for you. They'll keep you from making wrong turns, or following the bad directions Of those who are lost themselves and can't tell a trail from a tumbleweed, These losers who make a game of evil and throw parties to celebrate perversity, Traveling paths that go nowhere, wandering in a maze of detours and dead ends.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course.

Contextual Overview

1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind; 2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge; 3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge; 4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth; 5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours. 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason: 7 He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil; 8 He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him. 9 Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 1:2-6, Psalms 25:8, Psalms 25:9, Psalms 32:8, Psalms 119:99, Psalms 119:105, Psalms 143:8-10, Isaiah 35:8, Isaiah 48:17, Jeremiah 6:16, Matthew 7:13, Matthew 7:14, John 14:6

Reciprocal: Psalms 14:2 - any Proverbs 14:8 - wisdom Isaiah 11:3 - shall make him

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.
Genesis 2:9
And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:17
But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.
Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.
Deuteronomy 6:25
And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.
Isaiah 44:25
Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:
Isaiah 47:10
For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.
Ezekiel 31:16
I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment,.... This is another fruit and effect of the Gospel, and of a spiritual understanding of it; that besides the knowledge of God, and how to behave with reverence towards him, Proverbs 2:5; it leads men into a notion of doing that which is right and just among men; it gives them not only a theoretic but a practical understanding of justice, and a true judgment of what is right and wrong; or gives such an understanding thereof as that they practise it; for it teaches men to live soberly, righteously, and godly, Titus 2:11. It is not only a revelation and ministration of the righteousness of Christ as the only matter of a sinner's justification before God; and informs a man's judgment so that he can distinguish between truth and error, right and wrong, good and bad notions and practices; but it influences his actions, life, and conversation, and engages him to do works of righteousness from the best principles, upon the best motives, and with the best views;

and equity; [yea], every good path; that is, so to understand equity, as to do that which is equitable between man and man; and to understand every good path which the word of God directs to, even all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, so as to walk in them; these things the Gospel acquaints men with, and urges them to observe: or the words may be rendered, either "the rectitude" or "equity of fall good paths", as the Syriac version; how just, and right, and plain, and equitable, everyone is, and therefore ought to be walked in; or "plainnesses", or "most plain", is or shall be "every good path" r, to them that have a spiritual and experimental knowledge of the Gospel; and by it an understanding of their duty. One word signifies "plain" and "straight", and another "round" s, and both are true of the path of righteousness; for though it is a circle of duty saints walk in, yet straight and plain.

r So Schmidt. s מישרים "complanationes", Schultens; מעגל "orbitam", Montanus; "ab עגל rotundus", Gejerus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 2:9. Then shalt thou understand — He who is taught of God understands the whole law of justice, mercy, righteousness, and truth; God has written this on his heart. He who understands these things by books only is never likely to practise or profit by them.


 
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