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Proverbs 5:2
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so that you may maintain discretionand your lips safeguard knowledge.
That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
Be careful to use good sense, and watch what you say.
in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.
That you may exercise discrimination and discretion (good judgment), And your lips may reserve knowledge and answer wisely [to temptation].
So that you may maintain discretion And your lips may comply with knowledge.
That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.
That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
That you may keep discretionAnd that your lips may guard knowledge.
that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
you will have sound judgment, and you will always know the right thing to say.
so that you will preserve discretion and your lips keep watch over knowledge.
that thou mayest keep reflection, and that thy lips may preserve knowledge.
Remember to live wisely, and what you learn will keep your lips from saying the wrong thing.
That you may heed counsel and that your lips may keep knowledge.
Then you will know how to behave properly, and your words will show that you have knowledge.
in order to keep prudence, and knowledge will guard your lips.
so that you may keep judgment, and your lips may keep knowledge.
yt thou mayest regarde good councell, and that thy lippes maye kepe nurtoure.
That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keepe knowledge.
That thou mayest regarde good counsell, and that thy lippes may kepe knowledge.
that thou mayest keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives thee a charge.
That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
and thi lippis kepe teching. Yyue thou not tent to the falsnesse of a womman;
That you may preserve discretion, And that your lips may keep knowledge.
That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.
That you may preserve discretion, And your lips may keep knowledge.
Then you will show discernment, and your lips will express what you've learned.
So you may know what is good thinking, and your lips may keep much learning.
so that you may hold on to prudence, and your lips may guard knowledge.
That thou mayest preserve discretion, - and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.
That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.
That you may observe discretion And your lips may reserve knowledge.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thy lips: Proverbs 10:21, Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 15:7, Proverbs 16:23, Proverbs 20:15, Psalms 45:2, Psalms 71:15, Psalms 119:13, Song of Solomon 4:11, Malachi 2:6, Malachi 2:7
Reciprocal: Job 33:33 - hearken Proverbs 1:8 - hear Proverbs 22:17 - Bow Proverbs 23:12 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:11 - as
Cross-References
And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.
And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.
••• Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English. So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.
And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,
But from the first, male and female made he them.
And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
That thou mayest regard discretion,.... Observe it; retain it in thine heart, as Aben Ezra adds, and use it; think, speak, and act discreetly, and so avoid the bad woman afterwards described: the Vulgate Latin version is, "that thou mayest keep the thoughts"; and so Gersom interprets the word; "good thoughts", according to the Septuagint version; the thoughts of the heart are to be observed. A man of spiritual wisdom will take notice of them; evil thoughts, which lead to uncleanness, are to be repressed and kept in; good ones to be cherished and improved; wise and sagacious ones (such the word here used signifies) are to be attended to, as being of great advantage in the various affairs and business of life; and spiritual and evangelical wisdom helps to such thoughts, and directs to the observance and exercise of them;
and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge; may be able to speak of things worthy to be known, and communicate the knowledge of them to others; by which means useful knowledge will be kept and preserved, and be continued in successive ages; see Malachi 2:7; even the knowledge of God and of Christ, and of the Gospel and its doctrines; and which will be a means of preserving men, as from false doctrine, error, and heresy, so from profaneness and immorality; and particularly from the adulterous woman, next described.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And that thy lips may keep - literally, “and thy lips shall keep.”
