Proverbs 5:2

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
so that you may maintain discretionand your lips safeguard knowledge.

Hebrew Names Version
That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.

King James Version
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

English Standard Version
that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.

New Century Version
Be careful to use good sense, and watch what you say.

New English Translation
in order to safeguard 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].

New American Standard Bible
So that you may maintain discretion And your lips may comply with knowledge.

World English Bible
That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.

Geneva Bible (1587)
That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.

Legacy Standard Bible
That you may keep discretionAnd that your lips may guard knowledge.

Berean Standard Bible
that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.

Contemporary English Version
you will have sound judgment, and you will always know the right thing to say.

Complete Jewish Bible
so that you will preserve discretion and your lips keep watch over knowledge.

Darby Translation
that thou mayest keep reflection, and that thy lips may preserve knowledge.

Easy-to-Read Version
Remember to live wisely, and what you learn will keep your lips from saying the wrong thing.

George Lamsa Translation
That you may heed counsel and that your lips may keep knowledge.

Good News Translation
Then you will know how to behave properly, and your words will show that you have knowledge.

Lexham English Bible
in order to keep prudence, and knowledge will guard your lips.

Literal Translation
so that you may keep judgment, and your lips may keep knowledge.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yt thou mayest regarde good councell, and that thy lippes maye kepe nurtoure.

American Standard Version
That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.

Bible in Basic English
So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

King James Version (1611)
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keepe knowledge.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
That thou mayest regarde good counsell, and that thy lippes may kepe knowledge.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that thou mayest keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives thee a charge.

English Revised Version
That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thi lippis kepe teching. Yyue thou not tent to the falsnesse of a womman;

Update Bible Version
That you may preserve discretion, And that your lips may keep knowledge.

Webster's Bible Translation
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 Living Translation
Then you will show discernment, and your lips will express what you've learned.

New Life Bible
So you may know what is good thinking, and your lips may keep much learning.

New Revised Standard
so that you may hold on to prudence, and your lips may guard knowledge.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That thou mayest preserve discretion, - and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.

Revised Standard Version
that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.

Young's Literal Translation
To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
That you may observe discretion And your lips may reserve knowledge.

Contextual Overview

¹ Dear friend, pay close attention to this, my wisdom; listen very closely to the way I see it. Then you'll acquire a taste for good sense; what I tell you will keep you out of trouble. ³The lips of a seductive woman are oh so sweet, her soft words are oh so smooth. But it won't be long before she's gravel in your mouth, a pain in your gut, a wound in your heart. She's dancing down the primrose path to Death; she's headed straight for Hell and taking you with her. She hasn't a clue about Real Life, about who she is or where she's going. ⁷So, my friend, listen closely; don't treat my words casually. Keep your distance from such a woman; absolutely stay out of her neighborhood. You don't want to squander your wonderful life, to waste your precious life among the hardhearted. Why should you allow strangers to take advantage of you? Why be exploited by those who care nothing for you? You don't want to end your life full of regrets, nothing but sin and bones, Saying, "Oh, why didn't I do what they told me? Why did I reject a disciplined life? Why didn't I listen to my mentors, or take my teachers seriously? My life is ruined! I haven't one blessed thing to show for my life!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy lips: Proverbs 10:21, Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 15:7, Proverbs 16:23, Proverbs 20:15, Psalms 45:2, Psalms 71:15, Psalms 119:13, Song of Solomon 4:11, Malachi 2:6, Malachi 2:7

Reciprocal: Job 33:33 - hearken Proverbs 1:8 - hear Proverbs 22:17 - Bow Proverbs 23:12 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:11 - as

Cross-References

Genesis 2:15
God took the Man and set him down in the Garden of Eden to work the ground and keep it in order.

Genesis 2:23
The Man said, "Finally! Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh! Name her Woman for she was made from Man." Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife. They become one flesh. The two of them, the Man and his Wife, were naked, but they felt no shame.

Matthew 19:4
He answered, "Haven't you read in your Bible that the Creator originally made man and woman for each other, male and female? And because of this, a man leaves father and mother and is firmly bonded to his wife, becoming one flesh—no longer two bodies but one. Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That thou mayest regard discretion,.... Observe it; retain it in thine heart, as Aben Ezra adds, and use it; think, speak, and act discreetly, and so avoid the bad woman afterwards described: the Vulgate Latin version is, "that thou mayest keep the thoughts"; and so Gersom interprets the word; "good thoughts", according to the Septuagint version; the thoughts of the heart are to be observed. A man of spiritual wisdom will take notice of them; evil thoughts, which lead to uncleanness, are to be repressed and kept in; good ones to be cherished and improved; wise and sagacious ones (such the word here used signifies) are to be attended to, as being of great advantage in the various affairs and business of life; and spiritual and evangelical wisdom helps to such thoughts, and directs to the observance and exercise of them;

and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge; may be able to speak of things worthy to be known, and communicate the knowledge of them to others; by which means useful knowledge will be kept and preserved, and be continued in successive ages; see Malachi 2:7; even the knowledge of God and of Christ, and of the Gospel and its doctrines; and which will be a means of preserving men, as from false doctrine, error, and heresy, so from profaneness and immorality; and particularly from the adulterous woman, next described.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And that thy lips may keep - literally, “and thy lips shall keep.”