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Proverbs 2:11
11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
Proverbs 2:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
- English Standard Version (ESV)discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you,
- New Living Translation (NLT)Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe.
Context of Proverbs 2:11
9Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path. 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you. 12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, 13who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
Read all of Proverbs 2Proverbs 2:11 word by word
מְ֭זִמָּה תִּשְׁמֹ֥ר עָלֶ֗יךָ תְּבוּנָ֥ה תִנְצְרֶֽכָּה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 2:11
- Proverbs 4:6Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you.
- Proverbs 6:22When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
- Psalms 25:21May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you.
- Psalms 119:9How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word.
- Ecclesiastes 9:15Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.
- Ecclesiastes 10:10If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success.
- Ephesians 5:15Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise,
Commentaries on Proverbs 2:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Discretion shall preserve thee - מזמה mezimmah . See on Proverbs 1:4; (note). Here the word is taken in a good sense, a good device. The man invents purposes of good; and all his schemes, plans, and devices, have for their object God's glory and the good of man: he deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things he shall stand. Coverdale translates, "Then shall Counsel preserve thee." A very good translation, much better than the present.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-22Verses 10-22 If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and temptations without. The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant, lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in such ways! They take pleasure…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22The father advises his son to seek wisdom. It will protect him from bad people and the risks of unfaithful women. The son should pursue wisdom, knowing it is a gift from God.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1110-11. Idea of Pr 2:9, amplified; on terms, compare Pr 2:2 and Pr 2:4.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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