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Brenton's Septuagint
Proverbs 22:18
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For it is pleasing if you keep them within youand if they are constantly on your lips.
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If all of them are ready on your lips.
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, So that they may be ready on your lips.
It will be good to keep these things in mind so that you are ready to repeat them.
For it will be pleasant if you keep them in mind [incorporating them as guiding principles]; Let them be ready on your lips [to guide and strengthen yourself and others].
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If all of them are ready on your lips.
For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,That they may be established on your lips.
for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.
You will be glad that you know these sayings and can recite them.
for it is pleasant to keep them deep within you; have all of them ready on your lips.
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.
It will be good for you to remember these words and have them ready when they are needed.
For both of them are pleasant, keep them within you; let them together be made ready on your lips.
and you will be glad if you remember them and can quote them.
For it is pleasant if you guard them within you; together they will be ready upon your lips.
for they are pleasant when you keep them within you; they shall all be fixed together on your lips,
for it is a pleasaunt thinge yf thou kepe it in thine herte, and practise it in thy mouth:
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.
For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; let them be established altogether upon thy lips.
For it is a pleasant thing, if thou keepe them within thee; they shall withall be fitted in thy lippes.
For it is a pleasaunt thing if thou kepe them in thyne heart, and order them in thy lippes:
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.
That schal be fair to thee, whanne thou hast kept it in thin herte, and it schal flowe ayen in thi lippis.
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them inside you, If they are established together on your lips.
For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; Let them all be fixed upon your lips,
For it is good to keep these sayings in your heart and always ready on your lips.
For it will be pleasing if you keep them in your heart, so they may be ready on your lips.
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips.
Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, That they may be ready on your lips.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
it is: Proverbs 2:10, Proverbs 3:17, Proverbs 24:13, Proverbs 24:14, Psalms 19:10, Psalms 119:103, Psalms 119:111, Psalms 119:162, Jeremiah 15:16
within thee: Heb. within thy belly, Job 32:18, Job 32:19, John 7:38
fitted: Proverbs 8:6, Proverbs 10:13, Proverbs 10:21, Proverbs 15:7, Proverbs 16:21, Proverbs 25:11, Psalms 119:13, Psalms 119:171, Malachi 2:7, Hebrews 13:15
Reciprocal: Proverbs 16:23 - heart Proverbs 18:20 - General Proverbs 19:8 - he that keepeth Ecclesiastes 10:12 - words Matthew 13:52 - which Luke 6:45 - good man Acts 18:26 - expounded Colossians 4:6 - your
Cross-References
But Abraam shall become a great and populous nation, and in him shall all the nations of the earth be blest.
And it came to pass after these things that God tempted Abraam, and said to him, Abraam, Abraam; and he said, Lo! I am here.
And Abraam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass, and he took with him two servants, and Isaac his son, and having split wood for a whole-burnt-offering, he arose and departed, and came to the place of which God spoke to him,
on the third day; and Abraam having lifted up his eyes, saw the place afar off.
And Abraam said to his servants, Sit ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will proceed thus far, and having worshipped we will return to you.
And Abraam said, God will provide himself a sheep for a whole-burnt-offering, my son. And both having gone together,
came to the place which God spoke of to him; and there Abraam built the altar, and laid the wood on it, and having bound the feet of Isaac his son together, he laid him on the altar upon the wood.
And Abraam stretched forth his hand to take the knife to slay his son.
Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel, I said, Thy house and the house of thy father shall pass before me for ever: but now the Lord says, That be far from me; for I will only honour them that honour me, and he that sets me at nought shall be despised.
Let his name be blessed for ever: his name shall endure longer than the sun: and all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee,.... Or, "in thy belly" a. That is, in thine heart, in the inmost recesses of it; where the words or doctrines of the wise should be received in the love of them, and carefully laid up and retained; which will upon reflection yield much pleasure, like Ezekiel's roll, which was in his belly as honey for sweetness; and which also is very profitable as an antidote against sin, Psalms 119:11;
they shall withal be fitted in thy lips; become them, and be suitable and graceful to them: or, "shall be ordered [and disposed] in" or "by thy lips" b; being received into the heart, and digested there, they shall easily and freely go off the tongue, which shall be as the pen of a ready writer; they shall be delivered in a regular manner, with great liberty and facility; by a good digestion of Gospel truths, and a comfortable experience of them, persons become apt to teach others.
a בבטנך "in ventre tuo", V. L. Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Mercerus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis, Schultens. b כונו "disponantur", Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
What is “pleasant” in the sight of God and man is the union of two things, belief passing into profession, profession resting on belief.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 22:18. For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee —
II. The pleasure and profit which may be derived from an attentive hearing.
1. They should be laid up in the heart - stored, treasured up within thee.
2. This will yield high satisfaction and happiness to the soul: "For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee."
3. The man who thus attends to the teachings of wisdom shall gain an experimental knowledge of them, so as to be able to speak of them suitably, pertinently and persuasively. "They shall withal be fitted in thy lips."
