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New Living Translation

Proverbs 30:5

Every word of God proves true. He is a shield to all who come to him for protection.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Shield;   Word of God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Battle of Life;   Bible, the;   God's Word;   Protector, Divine;   Purity;   Shield, God a;   Word;   Word of God;   Word, God's;   The Topic Concordance - Commandment;   Creation;   Defense;   God;   Lying/lies;   Purity;   Trust;   Word of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Scriptures, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Proverb, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Word;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Armour;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arms and Armor;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Agur;   Jakeh;   Lie, Lying;   Massa;   Proverbs, Book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Pure (and forms);  

Encyclopedias:

- Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Arms - armor;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eliezer B. Nathan of Mayence;   Poetry;   She'elot U-Teshubot;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for October 9;   Every Day Light - Devotion for October 29;   Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for March 1;  

Parallel Translations

Update Bible Version
Every word of God is tried: He is a shield to those that take refuge in him.
New Century Version
"Every word of God is true. He guards those who come to him for safety.
New English Translation
Every word of God is purified; he is like a shield for those who take refuge in him.
Webster's Bible Translation
Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield to them that put their trust in him.
World English Bible
"Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Amplified Bible
Every word of God is tested and refined [like silver]; He is a shield to those who trust and take refuge in Him.
English Standard Version
Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ech word of God is a scheld set a fiere, to alle that hopen in hym.
English Revised Version
Every word of God is tried: he is a shield unto them that trust in him.
Berean Standard Bible
Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
Contemporary English Version
Everything God says is true— and it's a shield for all who come to him for safety.
American Standard Version
Every word of God is tried: He is a shield unto them that take refuge in him.
Bible in Basic English
Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him.
Complete Jewish Bible
Every word of God's is pure; he shields those taking refuge in him.
Darby Translation
Every word of +God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Easy-to-Read Version
You can trust this: Every word that God speaks is true. God is a safe place for those who go to him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Every word of God is tried; He is a shield unto them that take refuge in Him.
King James Version (1611)
Euery word of God is pure: he is a shield vnto them that put their trust in him.
New Life Bible
Every word of God has been proven true. He is a safe-covering to those who trust in Him.
New Revised Standard
Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Euery worde of God is pure: he is a shield to those, that trust in him.
George Lamsa Translation
Every word of God is pure; he is a shield to those who put their trust in him.
Good News Translation
"God keeps every promise he makes. He is like a shield for all who seek his protection.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Every saying of God is refined, A shield, is, he, to them who seek refuge in him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him.
Revised Standard Version
Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euery worde of God is pure: he is a shielde vnto all them that put their trust in hym.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Evil men will not understand judgement: but they that seek the Lord will understand everything.
Christian Standard Bible®
Every word of God is pure;he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Hebrew Names Version
"Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
King James Version
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Lexham English Bible
Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield for him who takes refuge in him.
Literal Translation
Every Word of God is refined, He is a shield to those who seek refuge in Him.
Young's Literal Translation
Every saying of God [is] tried, A shield He [is] to those trusting in Him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All the wordes of God are pure & cleane, for he is a shylde vnto all them, that put their trust in him.
THE MESSAGE
The believer replied, "Every promise of God proves true; he protects everyone who runs to him for help. So don't second-guess him; he might take you to task and show up your lies."
New American Standard Bible
Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
New King James Version
Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
Legacy Standard Bible
Every word of God is tested;He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

Contextual Overview

1 The sayings of Agur son of Jakeh contain this message. I am weary, O God; I am weary and worn out, O God. 2 I am too stupid to be human, and I lack common sense. 3 I have not mastered human wisdom, nor do I know the Holy One. 4 Who but God goes up to heaven and comes back down? Who holds the wind in his fists? Who wraps up the oceans in his cloak? Who has created the whole wide world? What is his name—and his son's name? Tell me if you know! 5 Every word of God proves true. He is a shield to all who come to him for protection. 6 Do not add to his words, or he may rebuke you and expose you as a liar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

word: Psalms 12:6, Psalms 18:30, Psalms 19:8, Psalms 119:140, Romans 7:12, James 3:17

pure: Heb. purified, Genesis 15:1, Psalms 84:11, Psalms 91:2, Psalms 115:9-11, Psalms 144:2

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:3 - shield 2 Samuel 22:31 - the word Psalms 33:4 - the word Psalms 47:9 - shields Psalms 115:11 - General Psalms 119:128 - I esteem Psalms 119:160 - Thy word is true from the beginning Proverbs 2:7 - a buckler Proverbs 29:25 - whoso Isaiah 45:19 - speak righteousness Matthew 15:9 - teaching Matthew 24:35 - my Romans 7:14 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Every word of God [is] pure,.... The whole word of God. "All Scripture", given by inspiration of God, to which Agur directs, as giving the best account of God, of his name, nature, and perfections; of his Son, person, offices, and grace; being pure, very pure, "purified" z like silver, purified in a furnace of earth. The whole of Scripture is pure, free from all falsehood and error; coming from the God of truth, who cannot lie, and therefore called "the Scriptures of truth": every promise is pure as well as precious, made without dissimulation, faithfully performed, and all yea and amen in Christ; every doctrine is pure, free from the mixtures and inventions of men; the sincere milk of the word; consistent and all of a piece, not yea and nay; and tending to promote purity of heart and life; wholesome words, and doctrines according to godliness; see

Psalms 12:6;

he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him; not the word, but God, whose the word is; and which represents him as a proper object of trust, both with respect to things temporal and spiritual, at all times; and as a shield to protect such, by his power and grace, from all their enemies, sin, Satan, and the world, and also from all errors and false doctrines; see Psalms 3:3.

z צרופה "purgatus", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Gejerus; "purgatissimus", Junius Tremellius Heb. "conflatus", Piscator, Mercerus, Cocceius, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Out of this consciousness of the impotence of all man’s efforts after the knowledge of God rises the sense of the preciousness of every living word that God has Himself revealed, whether through “the Law and the prophets” or through “wise men and scribes.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 30:5. Every word of God is pure] כל אמרת אלוה צרופה col imrath eloah tseruphah, "Every oracle of God is purified." A metaphor taken from the purifying of metals. Every thing that God has pronounced, every inspiration which the prophets have received, is pure, without mixture of error, without dross. Whatever trials it may be exposed to, it is always like gold: it bears the fire, and comes out with the same lustre, the same purity, and the same weight.

He is a shield unto them — And this oracle among the rest. "He is the defence of all them that put their trust in him." לכל lechol, to all, is added here by nineteen of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS.; for instead of לחסים lachosim, to the trusters, they read לכל החוסים lechol hachosim, "to EVERY ONE of them that trust." Where the preposition and adjective are not only added, but the noun is written more full, and more emphatic: but a translation cannot well express it without paraphrase.


 
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