Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge. New Living Translation Then you will show discernment, and your lips will express what you’ve learned. English Standard Version that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. Berean Standard Bible that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge. King James Bible That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. New King James Version That you may preserve discretion, And your lips may keep knowledge. New American Standard Bible So that you may maintain discretion And your lips may comply with knowledge. NASB 1995 That you may observe discretion And your lips may reserve knowledge. NASB 1977 That you may observe discretion, And your lips may reserve knowledge. Legacy Standard Bible That you may keep discretion And that your lips may guard knowledge. Amplified Bible That you may exercise discrimination and discretion (good judgment), And your lips may reserve knowledge and answer wisely [to temptation]. Christian Standard Bible so that you may maintain discretion and your lips safeguard knowledge. Holman Christian Standard Bible so that you may maintain discretion and your lips safeguard knowledge. American Standard Version That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge. Aramaic Bible in Plain English So that you heed counsel and your lips will keep knowledge. Brenton Septuagint Translation that thou mayest keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives thee a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman; Contemporary English Version you will have sound judgment, and you will always know the right thing to say. Douay-Rheims Bible That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman. English Revised Version That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. GOD'S WORD® Translation so that you may act with foresight and speak with insight. Good News Translation Then you will know how to behave properly, and your words will show that you have knowledge. International Standard Version so you may carefully practice discretion and your lips preserve knowledge. JPS Tanakh 1917 That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge. Literal Standard Version To observe thoughtfulness, | And your lips keep knowledge. Majority Standard Bible that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge. New American Bible That you may act discreetly, and your lips guard what you know. NET Bible in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge. New Revised Standard Version so that you may hold on to prudence, and your lips may guard knowledge. New Heart English Bible that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge. Webster's Bible Translation That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. World English Bible that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge. Young's Literal Translation To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Avoiding Immorality1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight, 2that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge. 3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,… Cross References Proverbs 3:21 My son, do not lose sight of this: Preserve sound judgment and discernment. Malachi 2:7 For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts. Treasury of Scripture That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge. thy lips Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. Proverbs 15:2,7 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness… Proverbs 16:23 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips. Jump to Previous Discretion Guard Lips Maintain Mayest Observe Preserve Purpose Reflection Regard Reserve Ruled Thoughtfulness WiseJump to Next Discretion Guard Lips Maintain Mayest Observe Preserve Purpose Reflection Regard Reserve Ruled Thoughtfulness WiseProverbs 5 1. Solomon exhorts to wisdom3. He shows the mischief of unfaithfulness and riot 15. He exhorts to contentedness, generosity, and chastity 22. The wicked are overtaken with their own sins Verse 2. - This verse expresses the purposes or results of the preceding admonition. The first is, that thou mayest regard discretion (Hebrew, lishmor m'zimmoth); literally, to guard reflection; i.e. in other words, that thou mayest maintain thoughtfulness, observe counsel, set a proper guard or control over thy thoughts, and so restrain them within proper and legitimate limits, or form such resolutions which, being well considered and prudential, may result in prudent conduct. The word m'zimmoth, however, does not travel beyond the sphere of what is conceived in the mind, and consequently does not mean conduct (as Holden conceives), except in a secondary sense, as that thoughts and plans are the necessary preliminaries to action and conduct. Muffet, in loc., explains, "that thou mayest not conceive in mind any evil or vanity." The word m'zimmoth is the plural of m'zimmmah, which occurs in Proverbs 1:4. This word generally means any plan, project, device, either in a good or bad sense. In the latter sense it is applied to intrigue and deceitful conduct, as in Proverbs 24:8. It is here used in a good sense. Indeed, Delitzsch remarks that the use of the word in a good sense is peculiar to the introductory part of the Proverbs (ch. 1-9.). The Vulgate renders. "That thou mayest guard thy thoughts or reflection (ut custodias cogitationes)." So the LXX., Ἵνα φυλάξῃς ἔννοιαν ἀγαθήν, "That thou mayest guard good reflection," the adjective ἀγαθή being introduced to note the sense in which the ἔννοια, i.e. act of thinking, properly, is to be understood. The prefix לִ ("to") before shamar, "to guard," in lishmor, expresses the purpose, as in Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 2:2, et alia. The second end in view is, that thy lips may keep knowledge; literally, and thy lips shall keep knowledge. Those lips keep or preserve knowledge which literally retain the instruction of Wisdom (Zockler), or which allow nothing to pass them which does not proceed from the knowledge of God (Delitzsch), and which, when they speak, give utterance to sound wisdom. The meaning may be illustrated by Psalm 17:3, "I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress." The same expression occurs in Malachi 2:7, "For the priest's lips should keep knowledge," i.e. preserve and give utterance to it. Where "the lips keep knowledge," there they are protected against the lips of the strange woman, i.e. against her allurements, because they will be fortified with purity. Thy lips; s'phatheyka is the dual of the feminine noun saphah, "a lip." The teacher designedly uses this word instead of "thy heart" (cf. Proverbs 3:1), because of the contrast which he has in mind, and which be produces in the next verse. The LXX., Vulgate. and Arabic add, "Attend not to the deceitful woman," which Houbigant and Schleusner think is required by the context. The addition, however, is without authority (Holden). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew that you may maintainלִשְׁמֹ֥ר (liš·mōr) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to discretion מְזִמּ֑וֹת (mə·zim·mō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 4209: A plan, evil, sometimes good and your lips שְׂפָתֶ֥יךָ (śə·p̄ā·ṯe·ḵā) Noun - fdc | second person masculine singular Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin may preserve יִנְצֹֽרוּ׃ (yin·ṣō·rū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 5341: To watch, guard, keep knowledge. וְ֝דַ֗עַת (wə·ḏa·‘aṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 1847: Knowledge Links Proverbs 5:2 NIVProverbs 5:2 NLT Proverbs 5:2 ESV Proverbs 5:2 NASB Proverbs 5:2 KJV Proverbs 5:2 BibleApps.com Proverbs 5:2 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 5:2 Chinese Bible Proverbs 5:2 French Bible Proverbs 5:2 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 5:2 That you may maintain discretion that your (Prov. Pro Pr) |