Proverbs 2:6
New International Version
For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

New Living Translation
For the LORD grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

English Standard Version
For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

King James Bible
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

New King James Version
For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;

New American Standard Bible
For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

NASB 1995
For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

NASB 1977
For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Legacy Standard Bible
For Yahweh gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and discernment.

Amplified Bible
For the LORD gives [skillful and godly] wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Christian Standard Bible
For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

American Standard Version
For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because LORD JEHOVAH gives wisdom, and from his mouth, knowledge and understanding.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence come knowledge and understanding,

Contemporary English Version
All wisdom comes from the LORD, and so do common sense and understanding.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.

English Revised Version
For the LORD giveth wisdom; out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD gives wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Good News Translation
It is the LORD who gives wisdom; from him come knowledge and understanding.

International Standard Version
For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For the LORD giveth wisdom, Out of His mouth cometh knowledge and discernment;

Literal Standard Version
For YHWH gives wisdom, | Knowledge and understanding from His mouth.

Majority Standard Bible
For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

New American Bible
For the LORD gives wisdom, from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

NET Bible
For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

New Revised Standard Version
For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

New Heart English Bible
For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

World English Bible
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Young's Literal Translation
For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.

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Audio Bible



Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
5then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God. 6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. 7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,…

Cross References
James 1:5
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

1 Kings 3:12
behold, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has never been nor will ever be another like you.

Nehemiah 7:5
Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:

Job 22:22
Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

Job 32:8
But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.

Psalm 51:6
Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.


Treasury of Scripture

For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

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Exodus 31:3
And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

1 Kings 3:9,12
Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? …

1 Kings 4:29
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.

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Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Proverbs 8:5-9
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart…

Psalm 19:7
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

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(6) For the Lord giveth wisdom.--As St. James (Proverbs 1:5) expresses it, He gives it to every man "liberally, and upbraideth not:" i.e., blames him not for asking it.

Verse 6. - For the Lord giveth wisdom. The Lord Jehovah is the only and true Source of wisdom. The truth stated here is also met with in Daniel 2:21, "He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding." He "giveth," or more properly, "will give" (יִתֵּן yitten, future of נָתַן, nathan), wisdom; but the connection requires us to understand that the assurance applies only to those who seek after it earnestly and truly (cf. James 1:5-7). The two coefficients to our obtaining wisdom are our efforts and God's assistance. Solomon may be adduced as s striking exemplification of this; he asked for "an understanding heart," and God graciously granted his request (see 1 Kings 3:9, 12). Out of his mouth (מִפִיו, mippiv); ex ore ejus; God is here spoken of anthropologically. He is the true Teacher. The meaning is that God communicates wisdom through the medium of his Word (Delitzsch. Pi.). The law proceeds from his mouth (Job 22:22). In the Book of Wisdom (7:25), "Wisdom is the breath of the power of God." His word is conveyed to us through men divinely inspired, and hence St. Peter (2 Peter 1:21) says that "holy men of old spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the LORD
יְ֭הוָה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

gives
יִתֵּ֣ן (yit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

wisdom;
חָכְמָ֑ה (ḥāḵ·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2451: Wisdom

from His mouth
מִ֝פִּ֗יו (mip·pîw)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

come knowledge
דַּ֣עַת (da·‘aṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1847: Knowledge

and understanding.
וּתְבוּנָֽה׃ (ū·ṯə·ḇū·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8394: Intelligence, an argument, caprice


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