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Young's Literal Translation

Psalms 37:30

The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Speaking;   Thompson Chain Reference - Mouth of the Righteous;   Silence-Speech;   The Topic Concordance - Righteousness;   Speech/communication;   Stumbling/slipping;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Missionaries, All Christians Should Be as;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Salvation;   Tongue;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   English Versions;   Estate;   Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Wealth;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mutter;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for July 14;   Every Day Light - Devotion for January 20;  

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

Contextual Overview

21 The wicked is borrowing and repayeth not, And the righteous is gracious and giving. 22 For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off. 23 From Jehovah [are] the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth. 24 When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand. 25 Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread. 26 All the day he is gracious and lending, And his seed [is] for a blessing. 27 Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell to the age. 28 For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off. 29 The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it. 30 The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.

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 37:20
and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.'
Genesis 37:35
and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, `For -- I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him.
Genesis 37:36
And the Medanites have sold him unto Egypt, to Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, head of the executioners.
Genesis 42:13
and they say, `Thy servants [are] twelve brethren; we [are] sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one [is] with our father to-day, and the one is not.'
Genesis 42:32
we [are] twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the young one [is] to-day with our father in the land of Canaan.
Jeremiah 31:15
Thus said Jehovah, A voice in Ramah is heard, wailing, weeping most bitter, Rachel is weeping for her sons, She hath refused to be comforted for her sons, because they are not.

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.


 
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