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the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Young's Literal Translation

Proverbs 5:2

To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Discretion;   Prudence-Rashness;   The Topic Concordance - Alertness;   Disobedience;   Whoredom;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prostitution;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
so that you may maintain discretionand your lips safeguard knowledge.
Hebrew Names Version
That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.
King James Version
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
English Standard Version
that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
New Century Version
Be careful to use good sense, and watch what you say.
New English Translation
in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.
Amplified Bible
That you may exercise discrimination and discretion (good judgment), And your lips may reserve knowledge and answer wisely [to temptation].
New American Standard Bible
So that you may maintain discretion And your lips may comply with knowledge.
World English Bible
That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.
Geneva Bible (1587)
That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
Legacy Standard Bible
That you may keep discretionAnd that your lips may guard knowledge.
Berean Standard Bible
that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
Contemporary English Version
you will have sound judgment, and you will always know the right thing to say.
Complete Jewish Bible
so that you will preserve discretion and your lips keep watch over knowledge.
Darby Translation
that thou mayest keep reflection, and that thy lips may preserve knowledge.
Easy-to-Read Version
Remember to live wisely, and what you learn will keep your lips from saying the wrong thing.
George Lamsa Translation
That you may heed counsel and that your lips may keep knowledge.
Good News Translation
Then you will know how to behave properly, and your words will show that you have knowledge.
Lexham English Bible
in order to keep prudence, and knowledge will guard your lips.
Literal Translation
so that you may keep judgment, and your lips may keep knowledge.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yt thou mayest regarde good councell, and that thy lippes maye kepe nurtoure.
American Standard Version
That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Bible in Basic English
So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
King James Version (1611)
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keepe knowledge.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
That thou mayest regarde good counsell, and that thy lippes may kepe knowledge.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that thou mayest keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives thee a charge.
English Revised Version
That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thi lippis kepe teching. Yyue thou not tent to the falsnesse of a womman;
Update Bible Version
That you may preserve discretion, And that your lips may keep knowledge.
Webster's Bible Translation
That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.
New King James Version
That you may preserve discretion, And your lips may keep knowledge.
New Living Translation
Then you will show discernment, and your lips will express what you've learned.
New Life Bible
So you may know what is good thinking, and your lips may keep much learning.
New Revised Standard
so that you may hold on to prudence, and your lips may guard knowledge.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That thou mayest preserve discretion, - and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
Revised Standard Version
that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
That you may observe discretion And your lips may reserve knowledge.

Contextual Overview

1 My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear, 2 To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil [is] her mouth, 4 And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths. 5 Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of. 6 The path of life -- lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths -- thou knowest not. 7 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. 8 Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, 9 Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, 10 Lest strangers be filled [with] thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy lips: Proverbs 10:21, Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 15:7, Proverbs 16:23, Proverbs 20:15, Psalms 45:2, Psalms 71:15, Psalms 119:13, Song of Solomon 4:11, Malachi 2:6, Malachi 2:7

Reciprocal: Job 33:33 - hearken Proverbs 1:8 - hear Proverbs 22:17 - Bow Proverbs 23:12 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:11 - as

Cross-References

Genesis 1:27
And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.
Genesis 2:15
And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.
Genesis 2:23
and the man saith, `This [is] the [proper] step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;
Malachi 2:15
And He did not make one [only], And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what [is] the one [alone]! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.
Matthew 19:4
And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made [them], from the beginning a male and a female made them,
Mark 10:6
but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;
Acts 17:26
He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings --

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That thou mayest regard discretion,.... Observe it; retain it in thine heart, as Aben Ezra adds, and use it; think, speak, and act discreetly, and so avoid the bad woman afterwards described: the Vulgate Latin version is, "that thou mayest keep the thoughts"; and so Gersom interprets the word; "good thoughts", according to the Septuagint version; the thoughts of the heart are to be observed. A man of spiritual wisdom will take notice of them; evil thoughts, which lead to uncleanness, are to be repressed and kept in; good ones to be cherished and improved; wise and sagacious ones (such the word here used signifies) are to be attended to, as being of great advantage in the various affairs and business of life; and spiritual and evangelical wisdom helps to such thoughts, and directs to the observance and exercise of them;

and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge; may be able to speak of things worthy to be known, and communicate the knowledge of them to others; by which means useful knowledge will be kept and preserved, and be continued in successive ages; see Malachi 2:7; even the knowledge of God and of Christ, and of the Gospel and its doctrines; and which will be a means of preserving men, as from false doctrine, error, and heresy, so from profaneness and immorality; and particularly from the adulterous woman, next described.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And that thy lips may keep - literally, “and thy lips shall keep.”


 
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