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Literal Standard Version

Proverbs 2:8

To keep the paths of judgment, || And He preserves the way of His saints.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Personification;   Righteousness;   Wisdom;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Preservation;   Promises, Divine;   Providence, Divine;   Sustaining Providence;   The Topic Concordance - Preservation;   Saints;   Understanding;   Wisdom;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Path;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Path;   Providence;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 6;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
so that he may guard the paths of justiceand protect the way of his faithful followers.
Hebrew Names Version
That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his holy ones.
King James Version
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
English Standard Version
guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
New Century Version
He makes sure that justice is done, and he protects those who are loyal to him.
New English Translation
to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.
Amplified Bible
He guards the paths of justice; And He preserves the way of His saints (believers).
New American Standard Bible
Guarding the paths of justice, And He watches over the way of His godly ones.
World English Bible
That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
Geneva Bible (1587)
That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes)
Legacy Standard Bible
To guard the paths of justice,And He keeps the way of His holy ones.
Berean Standard Bible
to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
Contemporary English Version
God sees that justice is done, and he watches over everyone who is faithful to him.
Complete Jewish Bible
in order to guard the courses of justice and preserve the way of those faithful to him.
Darby Translation
guarding the paths of just judgment and keeping the way of his godly ones.
Easy-to-Read Version
He makes sure that people are treated fairly. He watches over his loyal followers.
George Lamsa Translation
He keeps the paths of justice, and preserves the ways of his saints.
Good News Translation
He protects those who treat others fairly, and guards those who are devoted to him.
Lexham English Bible
in order to guard paths of justice and keep the way of his faithful ones.
Literal Translation
to guard the paths of judgment, and He protects the way of His saints.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
he kepeth them in ye right path, and preserueth ye waye of his sayntes.
American Standard Version
That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
Bible in Basic English
He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
That He may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of His godly ones.
King James Version (1611)
He keepeth the pathes of iudgement, and preserueth the way of his Saints.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
That they may kepe the right path: and he preserueth the way of such as do serue him with godlinesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him.
English Revised Version
That he may guard the paths of judgment, and preserve the way of his saints.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he schal kepe the pathis of riytfulnesse, and he schal kepe the weies of hooli men.
Update Bible Version
That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
Webster's Bible Translation
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
New King James Version
He guards the paths of justice, And preserves the way of His saints.
New Living Translation
He guards the paths of the just and protects those who are faithful to him.
New Life Bible
He watches over the right way, and He keeps safe the way of those who belong to Him.
New Revised Standard
guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his faithful ones.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To him that observeth the paths of justice, yea, the way of his men of lovingkindness, he doth guard.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
Revised Standard Version
guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints.
Young's Literal Translation
To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones.

Contextual Overview

1My son, if you accept my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you, 2To cause your ear to attend to wisdom, || You incline your heart to understanding, 3For if you call for intelligence, || [And] give forth your voice for intelligence, 4If you seek her as silver, || And search for her as hid treasures, 5Then you understand the fear of YHWH, || And you find the knowledge of God. 6For YHWH gives wisdom, || Knowledge and understanding from His mouth. 7Even to lay up substance for the upright, || A shield for those walking uprightly. 8To keep the paths of judgment, || And He preserves the way of His saints.9Then you understand righteousness, || And judgment, and uprightness—every good path.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

keepeth: Proverbs 8:20, Psalms 1:6, Psalms 23:3, Psalms 121:5-8, Isaiah 35:9, Isaiah 49:9, Isaiah 49:10, John 10:28, John 10:29

and: Proverbs 3:21-24, Deuteronomy 33:3, Deuteronomy 33:26-29, 1 Samuel 2:9, Psalms 37:23, Psalms 37:24, Psalms 37:28, Psalms 37:31, Psalms 66:9, Psalms 145:20, Jeremiah 32:40, Jeremiah 32:41, 1 Peter 1:5, Jude 1:24

Reciprocal: Psalms 15:2 - He Psalms 16:1 - Preserve Psalms 50:5 - my saints Psalms 97:10 - preserveth Psalms 121:3 - will not Psalms 121:8 - thy going out Proverbs 3:23 - General Acts 9:32 - the saints 1 Corinthians 6:7 - there

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And YHWH God plants a garden in Eden, at the east, and He sets there the man whom He has formed;
Genesis 2:9
and YHWH God causes to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, and good for food, and the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Genesis 3:24
indeed, He casts out the man, and causes the cherubim to dwell at the east of the Garden of Eden with the sword of flame whirling around to guard the way of the Tree of Life.
Genesis 4:16
And Cain goes out from before YHWH, and dwells in the land, moving about east of Eden;
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifts up his eyes, and sees the whole circuit of the Jordan that it [is] all a watered country (before YHWH's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as YHWH's garden, as the land of Egypt), in your coming toward Zoar,
2 Kings 19:12
Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed—Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who [are] in Thelassar?
Isaiah 51:3
For YHWH has comforted Zion, || He has comforted all her ruins, || And He sets her wilderness as Eden, || And her desert as a garden of YHWH, || Joy, indeed, gladness is found in her, || Confession, and the voice of song.
Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, merchants of Sheba, Asshur—Chilmad—[are] your merchants,
Ezekiel 28:13
You have been in Eden, the garden of God, || Every precious stone [was] your covering, || Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, || Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, || The workmanship of your tambourines and of your pipes, || In you in the day of your being produced, have been created;
Ezekiel 31:16
I have caused nations to shake at the sound of his fall, || In My causing him to go down to Sheol, || With those going down to the pit, || And all trees of Eden are comforted in the lower earth, || The choice and good of Lebanon—All drinking waters.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He keepeth the paths of judgment,.... That is, the Lord keeps them; he does that which is just and right himself, in the course of his providence, and in the methods of his grace; and as he guides the feet of his people in the ways of righteousness and holiness, he keeps them there from turning out of them. The words may be rendered, "to keep the paths of judgment" q; and so expresses the end, fruit, and effect of the Lord's being a buckler to them, as he is said to be in Proverbs 2:7: he is their shield and protection, so as either to keep them in the right ways in which they should go; or that they might studiously observe them, and keep walking therein, without stumbling in them, or declining from them;

and preserveth the way of his saints; to whom he has been kind and bountiful; or who have been merciful, liberal, and generous to others; who having partook of the grace of God themselves, are useful to men: the Targum calls them "righteous ones". These the Lord preserves by his power and grace, in the way in which he has led them, and which is his own way, safe to his kingdom and glory: for none of his saints, his holy and righteous ones, shall ever perish; the way in which he directs them, and in which he keeps them, leads to everlasting life; see 1 Samuel 2:9.

q לנצר "ad custodiendum", Pagninus, Montanus; "ad servandum", Baynus, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

saints - The devout and God-fearing. Compare Psalms 85:8 etc. The occurrence of the word here, in a book that became more and more prominent as prophetic utterances ceased, probably helped to determine its application in the period of the Maccabean struggles to those who especially claimed for themselves the title of “devout” (Chasidim, the ̓Ασιδαῖοι Asidaioi of 1 Macc. 7:13).


 
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