Proverbs 2:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, And liftest up thy voice for understanding;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

American Standard Version (1901)

Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

Common English Bible

Call out for insight, and cry aloud for understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For if you would call upon wisdom and bend your heart to prudence,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:

Proverbs 2:3 Cross References

1 Chronicles 22:12

Only the LORD give thee discretion and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel; that so thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.

Psalm 119:125

I am thy servant, give me understanding; That I may know thy testimonies.

Psalm 119:169

Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: Give me understanding according to thy word.

Psalm 119:34

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

Psalm 119:73

Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: Give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

Proverbs 2:2

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thine heart to understanding;

Proverbs 2:4

If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures;

Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths.

Proverbs 4:1

Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding:

Proverbs 8:17

I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.

Luke 11:13

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

James 1:5

But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.