Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge, New Living Translation I have written thirty sayings for you, filled with advice and knowledge. English Standard Version Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge, Berean Standard Bible Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge, King James Bible Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, New King James Version Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge, New American Standard Bible Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge, NASB 1995 Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge, NASB 1977 Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge, Legacy Standard Bible Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge, Amplified Bible Have I not written to you excellent things In counsels and knowledge, Christian Standard Bible Haven’t I written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge, Holman Christian Standard Bible Haven’t I written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge, American Standard Version Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge, Aramaic Bible in Plain English And look, I have written these things to you three times Brenton Septuagint Translation And do thou too repeatedly record them for thyself on the table of thine heart, for counsel and knowledge. Contemporary English Version I have written thirty sayings filled with sound advice. Douay-Rheims Bible Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways, in thoughts and knowledge : English Revised Version Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge; GOD'S WORD® Translation Didn't I write to you previously with advice and knowledge Good News Translation I have written down thirty sayings for you. They contain knowledge and good advice, International Standard Version Have I not written for you 30 sayings containing counsel and knowledge, JPS Tanakh 1917 Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge; Literal Standard Version Have I not written to you three times | With counsels and knowledge? Majority Standard Bible Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge, New American Bible Have I not written for you thirty sayings, containing counsels and knowledge, NET Bible Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge, New Revised Standard Version Have I not written for you thirty sayings of admonition and knowledge, New Heart English Bible Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge, Webster's Bible Translation Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, World English Bible Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge, Young's Literal Translation Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Thirty Sayings of the Wise…19So that your trust may be in the LORD, I instruct you today—yes, you. 20Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge, 21to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you?… Cross References Proverbs 8:6 Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right. Ecclesiastes 12:10 The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth. Treasury of Scripture Have not I written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge, Proverbs 8:6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. Psalm 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Hosea 8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. Jump to Previous Admonition Counsel Counsels Excellent Sayings Suggestions Thirty Three Times Wise Writing WrittenJump to Next Admonition Counsel Counsels Excellent Sayings Suggestions Thirty Three Times Wise Writing WrittenProverbs 22 1. A good name is more desirable than great wealthVerse 20. - Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge? There is a difficulty about the word tendered "excellent things." The Khetib has שׁלשׁום, "the day before yesterday, formerly;" but the word occurs nowhere alone, and, as Nowack says, can hardly have been the original reading. However, Ewald, Bertheau, and others, adopting it, suppose that the author refers to some earlier work. Cheyne cites Bickell's rendering, "Now, years before now, have I written unto thee long before with counsels and knowledge," and considers the words to mean either that the compiler took a long time over his work, or that this was not the first occasion of his writing. One does not see why stress should be here laid on former instruction, unless, perhaps, as Plumptre suggests, in contrast to "this day" of the previous verse. The LXX. renders the word τρισσῶς thus, "And do thou record them for thyself triply for counsel and knowledge upon the table of thine heart." St. Jerome has, Ecce descripsi eam tibi tripliciter, in cogitationibus et scientiis. Other versions have also given a numerical explanation to the term. In it is seen an allusion to the three supposed works of Solomon - Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticles - which is absurd; others refer it to the threefold division of the Testament - Law, Prophets, and Hagiographa; others, to three classes of youths for whom the admonitious were intended; others, again, think it equivalent to "oftentimes," or "in many forms." But the reading is as doubtful as the explanations of it are unsatisfactory. The genuine word is doubtless preserved in the Keri, which gives שָׁלִשִׁים (shalishim), properly a military term, applied to chariot fighters and men of rank in the army. The LXX. translates the word by τριστὰτης e.g. Exodus 14:7; Exodus 15:4), which is equivalent to "chieftain." Hence the Hebrew term, understood in the neuter gender, is transferred to the chief among proverbs - "choice proverbs," as Delitzsch calls them. The Venetian, by a happy turn, gives τρισμέγιστα. Thus we come back to the rendering of the Authorized Version as meet correct and intelligible. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Have I notהֲלֹ֤א (hă·lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no written כָתַ֣בְתִּי (ḵā·ṯaḇ·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 3789: To grave, to write for you לְ֭ךָ (lə·ḵā) Preposition | second person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew thirty sayings שָׁלִישִׁ֑ים (šā·lî·šîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 8032: Three days ago, day before, yesterday about counsel בְּמ֖וֹעֵצֹ֣ת (bə·mō·w·‘ê·ṣōṯ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 4156: Counsel, plan, principle, device and knowledge, וָדָֽעַת׃ (wā·ḏā·‘aṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 1847: Knowledge Links Proverbs 22:20 NIVProverbs 22:20 NLT Proverbs 22:20 ESV Proverbs 22:20 NASB Proverbs 22:20 KJV Proverbs 22:20 BibleApps.com Proverbs 22:20 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 22:20 Chinese Bible Proverbs 22:20 French Bible Proverbs 22:20 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 22:20 Haven't I written to you thirty excellent (Prov. Pro Pr) |
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