Proverbs 2 · Verse 11

Proverbs 2:11

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs 2:11, King James Version

Proverbs 2:11 in other translations

BSBDiscretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,
WEBDiscretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
ASVDiscretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:
YLTThoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,
DARBYdiscretion shall keep thee, understanding shall preserve thee:
BBEWise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
WebsterDiscretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

What does Proverbs 2:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 2:10-11

10-11. Idea of Pr 2:9, amplified; on terms, compare Pr 2:2 and Pr 2:4.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 Discretion shall preserve thee - מזמה mezimmah. See on Pro 1:4 (note). Here the word is taken in a good sense, a good device. The man invents purposes of good; and all his schemes, plans, and devices, have for their object God's glory and the good of man: he deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things he shall stand. Coverdale translates, "Then shall Counsel preserve thee." A very good translation, much better than the present.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 2:10-22

If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and temptations without. The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant, lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in…

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Proverbs 2:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

מְ֭זִמָּהMe.zi.mahdiscretionH4209
תִּשְׁמֹ֥רtish.Morit will watchH8104
עָלֶ֗יךָ'a.Lei.khaover youH5921
תְּבוּנָ֥הte.vu.NahunderstandingH8394
תִנְצְרֶֽכָּה\׃tin.tze.Re.kahit will preserve youH5341

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 2:11

  • Proverbs 4:6

    Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

  • Ephesians 5:15

    See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

  • Psalms 25:21

    Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

  • Ecclesiastes 10:10

    If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

  • Psalms 119:9-11

    ב BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

  • Proverbs 6:22-24

    When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:15-18

    Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
4:6; 6:22-24; Ps 25:21; 119:9-11; Ec 9:15-18; 10:10; Eph 5:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Proverbs 2:10

    When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

  • Proverbs 2:11

    Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

  • Proverbs 2:12

    To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

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Proverbs 2:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		El consejo te guardará, te preservará la inteligencia:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		la réflexion te préservera, l’intelligence te protégera:
German
Elberfelder 1871		Besonnenheit wird über dich wachen, Verständnis dich behüten:
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		consilium custodiet te, et prudentia servabit te: