Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 8:9
9All of them are straightforward to the discerning, and right to those who find knowledge.
Proverbs 8:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
- New International Version (NIV)To the discerning all of them are right; they are upright to those who have found knowledge.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They are all straight to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They are all plain to him who understands, And right to those who find knowledge.
Context of Proverbs 8:9
7For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips detest wickedness. 8All the words of my mouth are righteous, Nothing in them is perverse or crooked. All of them are straightforward to the discerning, and right to those who find knowledge. 10Receive my instruction instead of silver and knowledge rather than choice gold. 11For wisdom is better than jewels, nothing you desire compares with her.
Read all of Proverbs 8Proverbs 8:9 word by word
כֻּלָּ֣ם נְ֭כֹחִים לַמֵּבִ֑ין וִֽ֝ישָׁרִ֗ים לְמֹ֣צְאֵי דָֽעַת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 8:9
- Proverbs 14:6A scoffer seeks wisdom yet finds none, but knowledge is easy to the discerning.
- Proverbs 15:14A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.
- Proverbs 17:24Wisdom is before the person of understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
- Proverbs 18:1One who isolates oneself seeks his own desire; he defies all sound judgment.
- Psalms 19:7It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other end. Nothing is hidden from its heat.
- Psalms 25:12Who is this man who fears Adonai? He will instruct him in the way he should choose.
- Psalms 119:98Your mitzvot make me wiser than my enemies —for they are mine forever.
- Isaiah 35:8A highway will be there—a roadway. It will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it. It is for the one who walks the way. Fools will not go astray.
- Micah 2:7Is it said, “O house of Jacob, is the Ruach Adonai short of patience? Are these His deeds?” “Do not My words deal well with one who walks uprightly?”
- Matthew 13:11And He replied to them, “To you has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
- John 6:45It is written in the Prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has listened and learned from the Father comes to Me.
- John 7:17If anyone wants to do His will, he will know whether My teaching comes from God or it is Myself speaking.
- 1 Corinthians 2:14Now a natural man does not accept the things of the Ruach Elohim, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- James 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all without hesitation and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
Commentaries on Proverbs 8:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9They are all plain - נכחים nechochim, straight forward, over against every man, level to every capacity. This is true of all that concerns the salvation of the soul. To them that find knowledge - When a man gets the knowledge of himself, then he sees all the threatenings of God to be right. When he obtains the knowledge of God in Christ, then he finds that all the promises of God are right - yea and amen.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-9Wisdom is linked to truth, understanding, and knowledge, which are correct, wholesome, simple, and clear. Wisdom dislikes deception, which is sneaky and dishonest (compare Proverbs 1:2–7; 6:16–19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. plain ... understandeth--easily seen by those who apply their minds. that find--implying search.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 8
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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