Proverbs 2:11

Complete Jewish Bible

discretion will watch over you, 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,

Amplified Bible
Discretion will watch over you, Understanding and discernment 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.

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

¹⁰ For wisdom will enter your heart, knowledge will be enjoyable for you, ¹¹ discretion will watch over you, and discernment will guard you. ¹² They will save you from the way of evil and from those who speak deceitfully, ¹³ who leave the paths of honesty to walk the ways of darkness, ¹⁴ who delight in doing evil and take joy in being stubbornly deceitful, ¹⁵ from those whose tracks are twisted and whose paths are perverse. ¹⁶ They will save you from a woman who is a stranger, from a loose woman with smooth talk, ¹⁷ who abandons the ruler she had in her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. ¹⁸ Her house is sinking toward death, her paths lead to the dead. ¹⁹ None who go to her return; they never regain the path to 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 Kush were S'va, Havilah, Savta, Ra‘mah and Savt'kha. The sons of Ra‘mah were Sh'va and D'dan.

Genesis 10:29
Ofir, Havilah and Yovav — all these were the sons of Yoktan.

Genesis 25:18
Yishma‘el's sons lived between Havilah and Shur, near Egypt as you go toward Ashur; he settled near all his kinsmen. Haftarah Hayyei-Sarah: M'lakhim Alef (1 Kings) 1:1–31 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Hayyei-Sarah: Mattityahu (Matthew) 8:19–22; 27:3–10; Luke 9:57–62 Here is the history of Yitz'chak, Avraham's son. Avraham fathered Yitz'chak. Yitz'chak was forty years old when he took Rivkah, the daughter of B'tu'el the Arami from Paddan-Aram and sister of Lavan the Arami, to be his wife. Yitz'chak prayed to Adonai on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. Adonai heeded his prayer, and Rivkah became pregnant. The children fought with each other inside her so much that she said, "If it's going to be like this, why go on living?" So she went to inquire of Adonai , who answered her, "There are two nations in your womb. From birth they will be two rival peoples. One of these peoples will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger." When the time for her delivery came, there were twins in her womb. The first to come out was reddish and covered all over with hair, like a coat; so they named him ‘Esav [completely formed, that is, having hair already]. Then his brother emerged, with his hand holding ‘Esav's heel, so he was called Ya‘akov [he catches by the heel, he supplants]. Yitz'chak was sixty years old when she bore them. The boys grew; and ‘Esav became a skillful hunter, an outdoorsman; while Ya‘akov was a quiet man who stayed in the tents. Yitz'chak favored ‘Esav, because he had a taste for game; Rivkah favored Ya‘akov. One day when Ya‘akov had cooked some stew, ‘Esav came in from the open country, exhausted, and said to Ya‘akov, "Please! Let me gulp down some of that red stuff — that red stuff! I'm exhausted!" (This is why he was called Edom [red].) Ya‘akov answered, "First sell me your rights as the firstborn." "Look, I'm about to die!" said ‘Esav. "What use to me are my rights as the firstborn?" Ya‘akov said, "First, swear to me!" So he swore to him, thus selling his birthright to Ya‘akov. Then Ya‘akov gave him bread and lentil stew; he ate and drank, got up and went on his way. Thus ‘Esav showed how little he valued his birthright.

1 Samuel 15:7
Then Sha'ul attacked ‘Amalek, starting at Havilah and continuing toward Shur, at the border 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.