Proverbs 4:6

Wycliffe Bible

Forsake thou not it, and it schal kepe thee; loue thou it, and it schal kepe thee.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t abandon wisdom, and she will watch over you;love her, and she will guard you.

Hebrew Names Version
Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

King James Version
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

English Standard Version
Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.

New Century Version
Hold on to wisdom, and it will take care of you. Love it, and it will keep you safe.

New English Translation
Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will guard you.

Amplified Bible
"Do not turn away from her (Wisdom) and she will guard and protect you; Love her, and she will watch over you.

New American Standard Bible
"Do not abandon her, and she will guard you; Love her, and she will watch over you.

World English Bible
Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;Love her, and she will guard you.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.

Contemporary English Version
If you love Wisdom and don't reject her, she will watch over you.

Complete Jewish Bible
Don't abandon [wisdom]; then she will preserve you; love her, and she will protect you.

Darby Translation
Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee; love her, and she shall preserve thee.

Easy-to-Read Version
Don't turn away from wisdom, and she will protect you. Love her, and she will keep you safe.

George Lamsa Translation
Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will save you.

Good News Translation
Do not abandon wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will keep you safe.

Lexham English Bible
Do not forsake her—then she will guard you; love her and she will keep you.

Literal Translation
Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will keep you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Forsake her not, and she shal preserue the: loue her, and she shal kepe the.

American Standard Version
Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; Love her, and she will keep thee.

Bible in Basic English
Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; love her, and she will keep thee.

King James Version (1611)
Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee: loue her, and she shall keepe thee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee, loue her, and she shall kepe thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to thee: love it, and it shall keep thee.

English Revised Version
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee; love her, and she shall keep thee.

Update Bible Version
Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you; Love her, and she will keep you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

New King James Version
Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; Love her, and she will keep you.

New Living Translation
Don't turn your back on wisdom, for she will protect you. Love her, and she will guard you.

New Life Bible
Do not leave her alone, and she will keep you safe. Love her, and she will watch over you.

New Revised Standard
Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not forsake her, and she will guard thee, - love her and she will keep thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.

Revised Standard Version
Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.

Young's Literal Translation
Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Do not forsake her, and she will guard you; Love her, and she will watch over you.

Contextual Overview

¹ Sones, here ye the teching of the fadir; and perseiue ye, that ye kunne prudence. ² Y schal yyue to you a good yifte; forsake ye not my lawe. ³ For whi and Y was the sone of my fadir, a tendir sone, and oon `gendride bifore my modir. ⁴ And my fadir tauyte me, and seide, Thin herte resseyue my wordis; kepe thou myn heestis, and thou schalt lyue. ⁵ Welde thou wisdom, welde thou prudence; foryete thou not, nethir bowe thou awey fro the wordis of my mouth. ⁶ Forsake thou not it, and it schal kepe thee; loue thou it, and it schal kepe thee. ⁷ The bigynnyng of wisdom, welde thou wisdom; and in al thi possessioun gete thou prudence. ⁸ Take thou it, and it schal enhaunse thee; thou schalt be glorified of it, whanne thou hast biclippid it. ⁹ It schal yyue encresyngis of graces to thin heed; and a noble coroun schal defende thee. ¹⁰ Mi sone, here thou, and take my wordis; that the yeris of lijf be multiplied to thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

love: Proverbs 4:21, Proverbs 4:22, Proverbs 2:10-12, Ephesians 3:17, 2 Thessalonians 2:10

Reciprocal: Proverbs 2:11 - General Proverbs 3:16 - and Proverbs 6:21 - General Proverbs 7:4 - Say Proverbs 11:9 - through Proverbs 19:8 - he that keepeth Philippians 4:7 - shall

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
Forsothe Adam knewe Eue his wijf, which conseyuede, and childide Cayn, and seide, Y haue gete a man bi God.

Genesis 4:3
Sotheli it was don after many daies, that Cayn offride yiftis to the Lord of the fruytis of erthe;

Genesis 4:4
and Abel offride of the first gendrid of his floc, and of the fatnesse of tho. And the Lord bihelde to Abel and to the yiftis of hym;

Genesis 4:5
sotheli he bihelde not to Cayn and to hise yiftis. And Cayn was wrooth greetli, and his cheer felde doun.

Genesis 4:8
And Cayn seide to Abel his brother, Go we out. And whanne thei weren in the feeld, Cayn roos ayens his brother Abel, and killide him.

Genesis 4:11
Now therfor thou schalt be cursid on erthe, that openyde his mouth, and resseyuede of thin hond the blood of thi brothir.

Genesis 4:13
And Cayn seide to the Lord, My wickidnesse is more than that Y disserue foryyuenesse; lo!

Job 5:2
Wrathfulnesse sleeth `a fonned man, and enuye sleeth a litil child.

Isaiah 1:18
And come ye, and repreue ye me, seith the Lord. Thouy youre synnes ben as blood reed, tho schulen be maad whijt as snow; and thouy tho ben reed as vermylioun, tho schulen be whijt as wolle.

Jeremiah 2:5
The Lord seith these thingis, What of wickidnesse foundun youre fadris in me, for thei yeden fer awey fro me, and yeden after vanyte, and weren maad veyn?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee,.... That is, Wisdom, or Christ. Men may be said to forsake Christ when they forsake the assembly of his church and people, which are his other self; when they forsake his ministers, his ambassadors, and representatives; when they forsake his word and ordinances; when they drop the doctrines of the Gospel, or depart from them; when they quit the profession they have formerly made. Nominal believers and formal professors may forsake him finally and totally; true believers only partially and for a time, through the weakness of the flesh, the temptations of Satan, the snares of the world, and the prevalence of corruption; and therefore such an exhortation is necessary, and ought to be regarded. To forsake Christ is a very great evil; it is against a man's own interest, and is of dangerous consequence, and therefore to be guarded against; to abide by him, his truths and ordinances, is very commendable; such shall be "preserved" by him safe to his kingdom and glory;

love her, and she shall keep thee; Christ is to be loved for the excellencies and perfections of his nature; for the loveliness of his person; for the love he has showed to his people; for what he in love has done and suffered for them, and is now doing; for the fulness of his grace and salvation, and the suitableness of them to them; for the communion he indulges them in with himself; for the relations of an head, husband, father, brother, and friend, he stands in to them: and also under the character of Wisdom, he being the only wise God and their Saviour, the Wisdom of God and Wisdom to them; and whose Gospel is the Wisdom of God in a mystery. He is to be loved, all of him and that belong unto him, and above all creatures and things, ardently, sincerely, and constantly; and such lovers of him shall be "kept" by him from the evil of the world; from the power and dominion of sin, and condemnation by it; from being destroyed by Satan, and his temptations; and from a final and total falling away, so as not to perish everlastingly; they are kept in his own hands, in his Father's love and his own, in the everlasting covenant; and in a state of grace, of sanctification, justification, and adoption. Not that loving Christ, and cleaving to him, are the causes of this preservation; but his love, grace, and power; yet these are descriptive of the persons kept and preserved: and the preservation and keeping of them is used as an argument to love him, and cleave unto him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 24:1-10; Psalms 37:0.

Proverbs 4:7

Or, “The beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.” To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain.

Proverbs 4:12

The ever-recurring parable of the journey of life. In the way of wisdom the path is clear and open, obstacles disappear; in the quickest activity (“when thou runnest”) there is no risk of falling.

Proverbs 4:13

She is thy life - Another parallel between personified Wisdom in this book and the Incarnate Wisdom in John 1:4.

Proverbs 4:16

A fearful stage of debasement. Sin is the condition without which there can be no repose.

Proverbs 4:17

i. e., Bread and wine gained by unjust deeds. Compare Amos 2:8. A less probable interpretation is, “They eat wickedness as bread, and drink violence as wine.” Compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7.

Proverbs 4:18

Shining ... shineth - The two Hebrew words are different; the first having the sense of bright or clear. The beauty of a cloudless sunshine growing on, shining as it goes, to the full and perfect day, is chosen as the fittest figure of the ever increasing brightness of the good man’s life. Compare the marginal reference.

Proverbs 4:19

Compare our Lord’s teaching John 11:10; John 12:35.

Proverbs 4:20

The teacher speaks again in his own person.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 4:6. Forsake her not — Wisdom personified is here represented as a guardian and companion, who, if not forsaken, will continue faithful; if loved, will continue a protector.