Proverbs 2:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, And liftest up thy voice for understanding;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

Common English Bible

³ Call out for insight, and cry aloud for understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For if you would call upon wisdom and bend your heart to prudence,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ 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.