Proverbs 2:11

Easy-to-Read Version

Planning ahead will protect you, and understanding will guard you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Discretion will watch over you,and understanding will guard you.

Hebrew Names Version
Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

King James Version
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

English Standard Version
discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,

New Century Version
Good sense will protect you; understanding will guard you.

New English Translation
Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,

Amplified Bible
Discretion will watch over you, Understanding and discernment will guard you,

New American Standard Bible
Discretion will watch over you, Understanding will guard you,

World English Bible
Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,

Legacy Standard Bible
Discretion will keep you,Discernment will guard you,

Berean Standard Bible
Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

Contemporary English Version
Sound judgment and good sense will watch over you.

Complete Jewish Bible
discretion will watch over you, and discernment will guard you.

Darby Translation
discretion shall keep thee, understanding shall preserve thee:

George Lamsa Translation
Intelligence shall preserve you, and the understanding of the pious men shall deliver you;

Good News Translation
Your insight and understanding will protect you

Lexham English Bible
Discretion will watch over you; understanding will protect you,

Literal Translation
discretion shall keep you, understanding shall watch over you,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
then shal councell preserue the, and vnderstondinge shal kepe the.

American Standard Version
Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

Bible in Basic English
Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Discretion shall watch over thee, discernment shall guard thee;

King James Version (1611)
Discretion shall preserue thee, vnderstanding shall keepe thee:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then shall counsayle preserue thee, and vnderstandyng shall kepe thee,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
good counsel shall guard thee, and holy understanding shall keep thee;

English Revised Version
Discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
good councel schal kepe thee, and prudence schal kepe thee; that thou be delyuered fro an yuel weie,

Update Bible Version
Discretion shall watch over you; Understanding shall keep you:

Webster's Bible Translation
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

New King James Version
Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you,

New Living Translation
Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe.

New Life Bible
Good thinking will keep you safe. Understanding will watch over you.

New Revised Standard
prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Discretion, shall watch over thee, understanding, shall preserve thee: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

Revised Standard Version
discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you;

Young's Literal Translation
Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ You will gain wisdom, and knowledge will bring you joy. ¹¹ Planning ahead will protect you, and understanding will guard you. ¹² These will keep you from following the wrong path and will protect you from those who have evil plans. ¹³ Such people have left the straight path and now walk in darkness. ¹⁴ They enjoy doing evil and are happy with the confusion it brings. ¹⁵ Their ways are crooked; they lie and cheat. ¹⁶ Wisdom will save you from that other woman, another man's wife, who tempts you with sweet words. ¹⁷ She married when she was young, but then she left her husband. She forgot the marriage vows she made before God. ¹⁸ Going into her house leads to death. She will lead you to the grave. ¹⁹ All who enter lose their life and never return.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 4:6, Proverbs 6:22-24, Psalms 25:21, Psalms 119:9-11, Ecclesiastes 9:15-18, Ecclesiastes 10:10, Ephesians 5:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:7 - and he Genesis 32:16 - space Deuteronomy 6:6 - shall be Nehemiah 8:12 - because Psalms 119:11 - Thy word Proverbs 4:14 - General Proverbs 12:1 - loveth Ecclesiastes 7:12 - wisdom Ezekiel 3:3 - it was Philippians 4:7 - shall

Cross-References

Genesis 10:7
Cush's sons were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah's sons were Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 10:29
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these people were Joktan's sons.

Genesis 25:18
His descendants settled throughout the desert area from Havilah to Shur. This area begins near Egypt and goes toward Assyria. Ishmael's people were often at war with the other descendants of Abraham.

1 Samuel 15:7
Saul defeated the Amalekites. He fought them and chased them all the way from Havilah to Shur, at the border of Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Discretion shall preserve thee,.... Which wisdom or the Gospel gives, or the Lord by the means of it; for the Gospel makes a man wise and discreet in the business of salvation, and in his conduct and deportment; and the discretion it gives him will put him upon his guard, and direct him to watch against every error, and every false way. And so the words may be rendered, "discretion will watch over thee"; to keep thee from everything pernicious in doctrine and practice. The Septuagint version renders it, "good counsel"; which wisdom gives, and the Gospel is full of; and which, if attended to, is a means of the preservation of the saints;

understanding shall keep thee; which is only the same thing expressed in other words. The Septuagint version renders it, "an holy thought"; and the Arabic version, "a just thought shall preserve thee in thy last times". What these are a means of keeping and preserving from is explained in the following verses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 2:11. Discretion shall preserve thee — מזמה mezimmah. See on Proverbs 1:4. Here the word is taken in a good sense, a good device. The man invents purposes of good; and all his schemes, plans, and devices, have for their object God's glory and the good of man: he deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things he shall stand. Coverdale translates, "Then shall COUNSEL preserve thee." A very good translation, much better than the present.