Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this great people of yours?”
Proverbs 4:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom, and whatever else you get, get insight. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: And with all thy getting get understanding. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The beginning of Wisdom is: get Wisdom (skillful and godly Wisdom)! [For skillful and godly Wisdom is the principal thing.] And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation). [James 1:5.] American Standard Version (1901) Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; Yea, with all thy getting get understanding. Common English Bible The beginning of wisdom: Get wisdom! Get understanding before anything else. Catholic Public Domain Version The beginning of wisdom is to obtain wisdom, and, with all that you possess, to acquire prudence. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence. |
Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this great people of yours?”
Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to the one who possesses it.
but few things are needed—indeed only one. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ