Proverbs 2:10

King James Version

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For wisdom will enter your heart,and knowledge will delight you.

Hebrew Names Version
For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

English Standard Version
for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

New Century Version
Wisdom will come into your mind, and knowledge will be pleasing to you.

New English Translation
For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.

Amplified Bible
For [skillful and godly] wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

New American Standard Bible
For wisdom will enter your heart, And knowledge will be delightful to your soul;

World English Bible
For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Geneva Bible (1587)
When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule,

Legacy Standard Bible
For wisdom will enter your heartAnd knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

Berean Standard Bible
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

Contemporary English Version
Wisdom will control your mind, and you will be pleased with knowledge.

Complete Jewish Bible
For wisdom will enter your heart, knowledge will be enjoyable for you,

Darby Translation
When wisdom entereth into thy heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul,

Easy-to-Read Version
You will gain wisdom, and knowledge will bring you joy.

George Lamsa Translation
When wisdom enters into your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul.

Good News Translation
You will become wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure.

Lexham English Bible
for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.

Literal Translation
When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf wy?dome entre in to thine herte, and yi soule delyte in knowlege:

American Standard Version
For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

Bible in Basic English
For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

King James Version (1611)
When wisedome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant vnto thy soule;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and thy soule deliteth in knowledge:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For if wisdom shall come into thine understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to thy soul,

English Revised Version
For wisdom shall enter into thine heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If wysdom entrith in to thin herte, and kunnyng plesith thi soule,

Update Bible Version
For wisdom shall enter into your heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant to your soul;

Webster's Bible Translation
When wisdom entereth into thy heart, and knowledge is pleasant to thy soul;

New King James Version
When wisdom enters your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,

New Living Translation
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy.

New Life Bible
For wisdom will come into your heart. And much learning will be pleasing to your soul.

New Revised Standard
for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When wisdom entereth thy heart, and, knowledge, to thy soul, is sweet,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:

Revised Standard Version
for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

Young's Literal Translation
For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; ¹¹ Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: ¹² To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; ¹³ Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; ¹⁴ Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; ¹⁵ Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: ¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; ¹⁷ Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. ¹⁸ For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. ¹⁹ None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 18:1, Proverbs 18:2, Proverbs 24:13, Proverbs 24:14, Job 23:12, Psalms 19:10, Psalms 104:34, Psalms 119:97, Psalms 119:103, Psalms 119:111, Psalms 119:162, Jeremiah 15:16, Colossians 3:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:8 - refused Leviticus 11:3 - cheweth Deuteronomy 6:6 - shall be Nehemiah 8:12 - because Psalms 17:4 - word Proverbs 3:17 - ways of Proverbs 4:6 - love Proverbs 11:9 - through Proverbs 12:1 - loveth Proverbs 14:27 - to Proverbs 22:18 - it is Ezekiel 3:3 - it was John 17:6 - they

Cross-References

Psalms 46:4
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

Revelation 22:1
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When wisdom entereth into thine heart,.... Either Christ, the Wisdom of God; who enters there at conversion, and sets up a throne in the heart, and dwells there by faith: or else the Gospel, the wisdom of God in a mystery; which enters not into the head only, as in hypocrites and formal professors; nor into the natural affections, as in the stony ground hearers; but into the heart, opened by the Spirit of God to receive it, so as to have a spiritual understanding of it; which is done when the Gospel comes not in word only, but in the demonstration and power of the Spirit; when a man truly understands it, approves of it, loves it, believes it; and it has a place in his heart, and richly dwells there;

and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; which the Gospel thus entering gives; even the knowledge of God in Christ, as the God of all grace, as gracious and merciful, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; the knowledge of Christ, as the only Redeemer and Saviour; and the knowledge of Gospel truths, which lead and relate unto him: all which is pleasant to a gracious soul, and affords unspeakable delight to the mind; and is sweeter, as every truth of the Gospel is, than the honey or the honeycomb; see Proverbs 16:24.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Another picture of the results of living in the fear of the Lord. Not that to which it leads a man, but that from which it saves him, is brought into view. Notice also that it is one thing for wisdom to find entrance into the soul, another to be welcomed as a “pleasant” guest.