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Revised Standard Version

Proverbs 2:9

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Integrity;   Personification;   Righteous;   Righteousness;   Wisdom;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Paths, Right;   Right;   The Topic Concordance - Understanding;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Justice;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then you will understand righteousness, justice,and integrity—every good path.
Hebrew Names Version
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path.
King James Version
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
English Standard Version
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
New Century Version
Then you will understand what is honest and fair and what is the good and right thing to do.
New English Translation
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity—every good way.
Amplified Bible
Then you will understand righteousness and justice [in every circumstance] And integrity and every good path.
New American Standard Bible
Then you will discern righteousness, justice, And integrity, and every good path.
World English Bible
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnes, and iudgement, and equitie, and euery good path.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then you will understand righteousness and justiceAnd equity—every good track.
Berean Standard Bible
Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity-every good path.
Contemporary English Version
With wisdom you will learn what is right and honest and fair.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then you will understand righteousness, justice, fairness and every good path.
Darby Translation
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity: every good path.
Easy-to-Read Version
If you listen to him, you will understand what is just and fair and how to do what is right.
George Lamsa Translation
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and the uprightness of all good ways.
Good News Translation
If you listen to me, you will know what is right, just, and fair. You will know what you should do.
Lexham English Bible
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness—every good course—
Literal Translation
Then you shall understand righteousness and judgment and honesty, yea , every good path.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then shalt thou vnderstonde rightuousnesse, iudgment and equite, yee and euery good path.
American Standard Version
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, yea, every good path.
Bible in Basic English
Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity, yea, every good path.
King James Version (1611)
Then shalt thou vnderstand righteousnesse, and iudgement, and equity; yea euery good path.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then shalt thou vnderstande righteousnesse, and iudgement, and equitie, yea and euery good path.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgement; and shalt direct all thy course aright.
English Revised Version
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment, and equity, yea, every good path.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thanne thou schalt vndirstonde riytfulnesse, and dom, and equytee, and ech good path.
Update Bible Version
Then you shall understand righteousness and justice, And equity, [yes], every good path.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [and] every good path.
New King James Version
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path.
New Living Translation
Then you will understand what is right, just, and fair, and you will find the right way to go.
New Life Bible
Then you will understand what is right and good, and right from wrong, and you will know what you should do.
New Revised Standard
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then, shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity - every noble course.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
Young's Literal Translation
Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path.
THE MESSAGE
So now you can pick out what's true and fair, find all the good trails! Lady Wisdom will be your close friend, and Brother Knowledge your pleasant companion. Good Sense will scout ahead for danger, Insight will keep an eye out for you. They'll keep you from making wrong turns, or following the bad directions Of those who are lost themselves and can't tell a trail from a tumbleweed, These losers who make a game of evil and throw parties to celebrate perversity, Traveling paths that go nowhere, wandering in a maze of detours and dead ends.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course.

Contextual Overview

1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; 3 yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, 4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures; 5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; 7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, 8 guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints. 9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 1:2-6, Psalms 25:8, Psalms 25:9, Psalms 32:8, Psalms 119:99, Psalms 119:105, Psalms 143:8-10, Isaiah 35:8, Isaiah 48:17, Jeremiah 6:16, Matthew 7:13, Matthew 7:14, John 14:6

Reciprocal: Psalms 14:2 - any Proverbs 14:8 - wisdom Isaiah 11:3 - shall make him

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:17
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die."
Genesis 3:3
but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
Deuteronomy 6:25
And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.'
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but lawlessness takes away lives.
Isaiah 44:25
who frustrates the omens of liars, and makes fools of diviners; who turns wise men back, and makes their knowledge foolish;
Isaiah 47:10
You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."
Ezekiel 31:16
I will make the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, will be comforted in the nether world.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment,.... This is another fruit and effect of the Gospel, and of a spiritual understanding of it; that besides the knowledge of God, and how to behave with reverence towards him, Proverbs 2:5; it leads men into a notion of doing that which is right and just among men; it gives them not only a theoretic but a practical understanding of justice, and a true judgment of what is right and wrong; or gives such an understanding thereof as that they practise it; for it teaches men to live soberly, righteously, and godly, Titus 2:11. It is not only a revelation and ministration of the righteousness of Christ as the only matter of a sinner's justification before God; and informs a man's judgment so that he can distinguish between truth and error, right and wrong, good and bad notions and practices; but it influences his actions, life, and conversation, and engages him to do works of righteousness from the best principles, upon the best motives, and with the best views;

and equity; [yea], every good path; that is, so to understand equity, as to do that which is equitable between man and man; and to understand every good path which the word of God directs to, even all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, so as to walk in them; these things the Gospel acquaints men with, and urges them to observe: or the words may be rendered, either "the rectitude" or "equity of fall good paths", as the Syriac version; how just, and right, and plain, and equitable, everyone is, and therefore ought to be walked in; or "plainnesses", or "most plain", is or shall be "every good path" r, to them that have a spiritual and experimental knowledge of the Gospel; and by it an understanding of their duty. One word signifies "plain" and "straight", and another "round" s, and both are true of the path of righteousness; for though it is a circle of duty saints walk in, yet straight and plain.

r So Schmidt. s מישרים "complanationes", Schultens; מעגל "orbitam", Montanus; "ab עגל rotundus", Gejerus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 2:9. Then shalt thou understand — He who is taught of God understands the whole law of justice, mercy, righteousness, and truth; God has written this on his heart. He who understands these things by books only is never likely to practise or profit by them.


 
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