Psalms 37:30

THE MESSAGE

Righteous chews on wisdom like a dog on a bone, rolls virtue around on his tongue. His heart pumps God's Word like blood through his veins; his feet are as sure as a cat's.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom;his tongue speaks what is just.

Hebrew Names Version
The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

King James Version
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

English Standard Version
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

New Century Version
Good people speak with wisdom, and they say what is fair.

New English Translation
The godly speak wise words and promote justice.

Amplified Bible
The mouth of the righteous proclaims wisdom, And his tongue speaks justice and truth.

New American Standard Bible
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, And his tongue speaks justice.

World English Bible
The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The mouth of the righteous will speake of wisedome, and his tongue will talke of iudgement.

Legacy Standard Bible
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,And his tongue speaks justice.

Berean Standard Bible
The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

Contemporary English Version
Words of wisdom come when good people speak for justice.

Complete Jewish Bible
The mouth of the righteous articulates wisdom, his tongue speaks justice.

Darby Translation
The mouth of the righteous proffereth wisdom, and his tongue speaketh judgment;

Easy-to-Read Version
Those who do what is right give good advice. Their decisions are always fair.

George Lamsa Translation
The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of justice.

Good News Translation
The words of good people are wise, and they are always fair.

Lexham English Bible
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

Literal Translation
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks judgment.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee the rightuous shal possesse ye lode, & dwell therin for euer.

American Standard Version
The mouth of the righteous talketh of wisdom, And his tongue speaketh justice.

Bible in Basic English
The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, and his tongue speaketh justice.

King James Version (1611)
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisedome; and his tongue talketh of iudgement.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wysdome: and his tongue wyll be talking of iudgement.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The mouth of the righteous will meditate wisdom, and his tongue will speak of judgment.

English Revised Version
The mouth of the righteous talketh of wisdom, and his tongue speaketh judgment.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The mouth of a iust man schal bithenke wisdom; and his tunge schal speke doom.

Update Bible Version
The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom, And his tongue speaks justice.

Webster's Bible Translation
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

New King James Version
The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, And his tongue talks of justice.

New Living Translation
The godly offer good counsel; they teach right from wrong.

New Life Bible
The mouth of the man who is right with God speaks wisdom. And his tongue speaks what is fair and right.

New Revised Standard
The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom, and their tongues speak justice.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The mouth of a righteous man, softly uttereth wisdom, and, his tongue, speaketh justice:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(36-30) The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall speak judgment.

Revised Standard Version
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

Young's Literal Translation
The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, And his tongue speaks justice.

Contextual Overview

²¹Wicked borrows and never returns; Righteous gives and gives. Generous gets it all in the end; Stingy is cut off at the pass. ²³Stalwart walks in step with God ; his path blazed by God , he's happy. If he stumbles, he's not down for long; God has a grip on his hand. ²⁵I once was young, now I'm a graybeard— not once have I seen an abandoned believer, or his kids out roaming the streets. Every day he's out giving and lending, his children making him proud. ²⁷Turn your back on evil, work for the good and don't quit. God loves this kind of thing, never turns away from his friends. Live this way and you've got it made, but bad eggs will be tossed out. The good get planted on good land and put down healthy roots. Righteous chews on wisdom like a dog on a bone, rolls virtue around on his tongue. His heart pumps God's Word like blood through his veins; his feet are as sure as a cat's. Wicked sets a watch for Righteous, he's out for the kill. God , alert, is also on watch— Wicked won't hurt a hair of his head. Wait passionately for God , don't leave the path. He'll give you your place in the sun while you watch the wicked lose it. I saw Wicked bloated like a toad, croaking pretentious nonsense. The next time I looked there was nothing— a punctured bladder, vapid and limp. Keep your eye on the healthy soul, scrutinize the straight life; There's a future in strenuous wholeness. But the willful will soon be discarded; insolent souls are on a dead-end street. The spacious, free life is from God , it's also protected and safe. God -strengthened, we're delivered from evil— when we run to him, he saves us. ²⁹class="psalm-title"> A David Psalm Don't bother your head with braggarts or wish you could succeed like the wicked. In no time they'll shrivel like grass clippings and wilt like cut flowers in the sun. Get insurance with God and do a good deed, settle down and stick to your last. Keep company with God , get in on the best. Open up before God , keep nothing back; he'll do whatever needs to be done: He'll validate your life in the clear light of day and stamp you with approval at high noon. Quiet down before God , be prayerful before him. Don't bother with those who climb the ladder, who elbow their way to the top. Bridle your anger, trash your wrath, cool your pipes—it only makes things worse. Before long the crooks will be bankrupt; God -investors will soon own the store. Before you know it, the wicked will have had it; you'll stare at his once famous place and—nothing! Down-to-earth people will move in and take over, relishing a huge bonanza. Bad guys have it in for the good guys, obsessed with doing them in. But God isn't losing any sleep; to him they're a joke with no punch line. Bullies brandish their swords, pull back on their bows with a flourish. They're out to beat up on the harmless, or mug that nice man out walking his dog. A banana peel lands them flat on their faces— slapstick figures in a moral circus. Less is more and more is less. One righteous will outclass fifty wicked, For the wicked are moral weaklings but the righteous are God -strong. God keeps track of the decent folk; what they do won't soon be forgotten. In hard times, they'll hold their heads high; when the shelves are bare, they'll be full. God-despisers have had it; God 's enemies are finished— Stripped bare like vineyards at harvest time, vanished like smoke in thin air. Wicked borrows and never returns; Righteous gives and gives. Generous gets it all in the end; Stingy is cut off at the pass. Stalwart walks in step with God ; his path blazed by God , he's happy. If he stumbles, he's not down for long; God has a grip on his hand. I once was young, now I'm a graybeard— not once have I seen an abandoned believer, or his kids out roaming the streets. Every day he's out giving and lending, his children making him proud. Turn your back on evil, work for the good and don't quit. God loves this kind of thing, never turns away from his friends. Live this way and you've got it made, but bad eggs will be tossed out. The good get planted on good land and put down healthy roots. ³⁰Righteous chews on wisdom like a dog on a bone, rolls virtue around on his tongue. His heart pumps God's Word like blood through his veins; his feet are as sure as a cat's. ³²Wicked sets a watch for Righteous, he's out for the kill. God , alert, is also on watch— Wicked won't hurt a hair of his head.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 71:15, Psalms 71:24, Deuteronomy 6:7-9, Proverbs 10:21, Proverbs 10:31, Proverbs 15:7, Proverbs 25:11-13, Proverbs 27:9, Matthew 12:35, Ephesians 4:29, Colossians 4:6

Reciprocal: Joshua 1:8 - book Job 6:10 - have not concealed Job 33:3 - my lips Psalms 34:21 - Evil Psalms 40:8 - yea Psalms 119:13 - I declared Psalms 119:172 - tongue Proverbs 10:11 - mouth of a Proverbs 15:26 - but Proverbs 16:23 - heart Ecclesiastes 10:12 - words Song of Solomon 4:3 - lips Malachi 2:6 - law Luke 6:45 - good man Romans 6:13 - and your

Cross-References

Genesis 37:36
In Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, manager of his household affairs.

Genesis 42:13
They said, "There were twelve of us brothers—sons of the same father in the country of Canaan. The youngest is with our father, and one is no more."

Jeremiah 31:15
Again, God 's Message: "Listen to this! Laments coming out of Ramah, wild and bitter weeping. It's Rachel weeping for her children, Rachel refusing all solace. Her children are gone, gone—long gone into exile." But God says, "Stop your incessant weeping, hold back your tears. Collect wages from your grief work." God 's Decree. "They'll be coming back home! There's hope for your children." God 's Decree.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom,.... Or "meditateth wisdom" a; that is, utters the wisdom he has been meditating upon; see Psalms 69:3; he meditates and speaks of the wisdom of God, which appears in the works of creation, providence, and grace; and of Christ, who is wisdom itself, and the wisdom of God essentially; and who, as Mediator, has the spirit of wisdom resting on him, the treasures of wisdom hid in him, and is made wisdom to his people: and righteous men meditate upon and speak of the glories of his person, the fulness of his grace, and the works of his hands; as also of the Gospel, which is the wisdom of God, mysterious, hidden, ancient wisdom, ordained before the world for their glory; and likewise of that internal wisdom, and experience of divine grace, the Lord has made them to know in the hidden part; which lies in the knowledge of themselves, and in a spiritual, experimental, and saving knowledge of Christ, and the way of salvation by him; and his mouth delivers out wise sayings, and useful instructions, fetched out of the word of God, and founded on experience and observation;

and his tongue talketh of judgment; of the judgment which the righteous God ordinarily ministers in a providential way; and of his extraordinary and awful judgments, which have been or are in the earth; these he takes notice of for his own use, and observes them to others for their instruction; and also of the last judgment, the judgment to come, which he speaks of as sure and certain, as universal and inevitable, and at which he must appear before God: and he talks of judgment or righteousness; that is, of the righteousness of Christ; he makes mention of this only as his justifying righteousness before God; he rejoices and glories in it, and desires to be found in it living and dying, and at judgment; and whatsoever things are honest, just, pure, and of good report, he thinks and speaks of them, and instructs his family, his children and servants, in them, that they may do them; see

Genesis 18:19.

a יהגה μελετησει, Sept. "meditabitur", V. L. so Musculus: Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom - That is, It is a characteristic of the righteous to speak “wise things;” not to utter folly. His conversation is serious, earnest, true, pure; and his words are faithful, kind, and just. This, as a part of human conduct, is one of the reasons why God will bless him with prosperity and length of days.

And his tongue talketh of judgment - That is, of just or righteous things. See Matthew 12:35.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 37:30. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom — Foolish and corrupt conversation cannot come out of their mouth. They are taught of God, and they speak according to the wisdom that is from above.