Psalm 90:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² So teach us to number our days, That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.

Common English Bible

¹² Teach us to number our days so we can have a wise heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² With their hands, they will carry you, lest you hurt your foot against a stone.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Psalm 90:12 Cross References

Job 28:28

And he said to humankind, ‘Truly, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Psalm 39:4

“Lord, let me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah

Proverbs 16:16

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 22:17

The words of the wise: Incline your ear and hear my words and apply your mind to my teaching,

Proverbs 23:12

Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 4:7

The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom, and whatever else you get, get insight.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of everyone, and the living will lay it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

John 9:4

We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what their end would be.