Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?
Proverbs 4:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: Yea, with all thou hast gotten get understanding. 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, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?
Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way. נ NUN
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget it not, neither decline from the words of my mouth:
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was.
There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labour, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.
but one thing is needful: for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?
Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may gain Christ,