New Revised Standard Version
For learning about wisdom and instruction, for understanding words of insight,

Contemporary English Version
Proverbs will teach you wisdom and self-control and how to understand sayings with deep meanings.

New American Bible
That people may know wisdom and discipline, may understand intelligent sayings;

Douay-Rheims Bible
To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:

To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:

Proverbs 4:5-7 Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee. . . .

Proverbs 7:4 That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.

Proverbs 8:5 Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.

Proverbs 16:16 Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.

Proverbs 17:16 What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.

Deuteronomy 4:5,6 You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess: . . .

1 Kings 3:9-12 Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to judge this people, thy people, which is so numerous? . . .

2 Timothy 3:15-17 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. . . .