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Contemporary English Version

Proverbs 8:9

"If you have understanding, you will see that my words are just what you need.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus Continued;   Wisdom;   The Topic Concordance - Knowledge;   Righteousness;   Understanding;   Wisdom;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Proverbs, Book of;   Trinity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Messiah;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Wisdom;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 29;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All of them are clear to the perceptive,and right to those who discover knowledge.
Hebrew Names Version
They are all plain to him who understands, Right to those who find knowledge.
King James Version
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
English Standard Version
They are all straight to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.
New Century Version
People with good sense know what I say is true; and those with knowledge know my words are right.
New English Translation
All of them are clear to the discerning and upright to those who find knowledge.
Amplified Bible
"They are all straightforward to him who understands [with an open and willing mind], And right to those who find knowledge and live by it.
New American Standard Bible
"They are all straightforward to him who understands, And right to those who find knowledge.
World English Bible
They are all plain to him who understands, Right to those who find knowledge.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They are all plaine to him that will vnderstande, and streight to them that woulde finde knowledge.
Legacy Standard Bible
They are all straightforward to him who understands,And right to those who find knowledge.
Berean Standard Bible
They are all plain to the discerning, and upright to those who find knowledge.
Complete Jewish Bible
They are all clear to those who understand and straightforward to those who gain knowledge.
Darby Translation
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
Easy-to-Read Version
These things are clear to any intelligent person. They are right to anyone with knowledge.
George Lamsa Translation
They are all plain to him who understands them, and right to those who are willing to find knowledge.
Good News Translation
To those with insight, it is all clear; to the well-informed, it is all plain.
Lexham English Bible
All of them are straight to him who understands, and upright to those who find knowledge.
Literal Translation
they are all plain to the understanding one; and right to those who find knowledge.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They are all playne to soch as wil vnderstode, & right to the that fynde knowlege.
American Standard Version
They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.
Bible in Basic English
They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
King James Version (1611)
They are all plaine to him that vnderstandeth: and right to them that find knowledge.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They are all playne to suche as wyll vnderstande, and right to them that finde knowledge.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They are all evident to those that understand, and right to those that find knowledge.
English Revised Version
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`My wordis ben riytful to hem that vndurstonden; and ben euene to hem that fynden kunnyng.
Update Bible Version
They are all plain to him that understands, And right to those that find knowledge.
Webster's Bible Translation
They [are] all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
New King James Version
They are all plain to him who understands, And right to those who find knowledge.
New Living Translation
My words are plain to anyone with understanding, clear to those with knowledge.
New Life Bible
They are all clear to him who understands, and right to those who find much learning.
New Revised Standard
They are all straight to one who understands and right to those who find knowledge.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All of them, shall be plain, to them who would understand, and just, to such as would gain knowledge.
Douay-Rheims Bible
They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.
Revised Standard Version
They are all straight to him who understands and right to those who find knowledge.
Young's Literal Translation
All of them [are] plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They are all straightforward to him who understands, And right to those who find knowledge.

Contextual Overview

1 With great understanding, Wisdom is calling out 2 as she stands at the crossroads and on every hill. 3 She stands by the city gate where everyone enters the city, and she shouts: 4 "I am calling out to each one of you! 5 Good sense and sound judgment can be yours. 6 Listen, because what I say is worthwhile and right. 7 I always speak the truth and refuse to tell a lie. 8 Every word I speak is honest, not one is misleading or deceptive. 9 "If you have understanding, you will see that my words are just what you need. 10 Let instruction and knowledge mean more to you than silver or the finest gold.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 14:6, Proverbs 15:14, Proverbs 15:24, Proverbs 17:24, Proverbs 18:1, Proverbs 18:2, Proverbs 18:15, Psalms 19:7, Psalms 19:8, Psalms 25:12-14, Psalms 119:98-100, Isaiah 35:8, Micah 2:7, Matthew 13:11, Matthew 13:12, John 6:45, John 7:17, 1 Corinthians 2:14, 1 Corinthians 2:15, James 1:5

Reciprocal: Psalms 27:11 - a plain path Proverbs 4:11 - led Proverbs 15:19 - the way of the righteous Isaiah 8:16 - among

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 28:65
You will be restless—always longing for home, but never able to return.
Psalms 116:7
and treated me so kindly that I don't need to worry anymore.
Isaiah 60:8
What is that sailing by like clouds or like doves flying home?
Ezekiel 7:16
Anyone who survives will escape into the hills, like doves who leave the valleys to find safety. All of you will moan because of your sins.
Matthew 11:28
If you are tired from carrying heavy burdens, come to me and I will give you rest.
John 16:33
I have told you this, so that you might have peace in your hearts because of me. While you are in the world, you will have to suffer. But cheer up! I have defeated the world.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They [are] all plain to him that understandeth,.... Whose understanding is enlightened by the Spirit of God; who is a spiritual man, that has a discerning, and can judge of spiritual things: as for the carnal man, let him have what natural knowledge or wisdom he will, he cannot know these things; for they are spiritually discerned, and can only be discerned by spiritual men. The Bible is a sealed book to others, learned or unlearned; the mysteries or doctrines of the Gospel are hid in parables from such; but those to whom Christ has given an understanding to know him, these know them, and they are plain unto them: for though there are some things hard to he understood in the Scriptures, as in Paul's epistles, and some sublime truths in the Gospel; yet those which are necessary to salvation are easily understood; that faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save the chief of sinners, is a very plain one;

and right to them that find knowledge; a spiritual and experimental knowledge of Christ and his truths. The Targum is,

"to them who desire knowledge;''

and so the Syriac version; that seek for it heartily and diligently, in a right way, in the use of proper means, under the direction and by the assistance of the Spirit of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Words of the ideal Wisdom, which find their highest fulfillment in that of the Incarnate Word. Compare Luke 4:22; Matthew 11:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 8:9. They 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.


 
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