Proverbs 24:5
Good News Translation
Being wise is better than being strong; yes, knowledge is more important than strength.

New Revised Standard Version
Wise warriors are mightier than strong ones, and those who have knowledge than those who have strength;

Contemporary English Version
Wisdom brings strength, and knowledge gives power.

New American Bible
The wise are more powerful than the strong, and the learned, than the mighty,

Douay-Rheims Bible
A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.

a wise

Proverbs 8:14 By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.

Proverbs 10:29 The just shall never be moved: but the wicked shall not dwell on the earth.

Proverbs 21:22 The wise man hath scaled the city of the strong, and hath cast down the strength of the confidence thereof.

Ecclesiastes 7:19 Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.

Ecclesiastes 9:14-18 A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect. . . .

strong

Psalm 84:7 For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

Isaiah 40:31 But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,

Context
Do not Envy
4By instruction the storerooms shall be filled with all precious and most beautiful wealth. 5A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.6Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.…
Cross References
Proverbs 21:22
The wise man hath scaled the city of the strong, and hath cast down the strength of the confidence thereof.

Proverbs 24:6
Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.

Proverbs 24:4
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