TOPICAL PROVERBS

by Grant Hodges

Wisdom for the Children of the King

DISCRETION

NIV
2:10 - For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
2:11 - Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
2:12 - Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse;
2:13 - who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways;
2:14 - who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;
2:15 - whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways;
2:16 - It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words;
2:17 - who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God;
19:11 - A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense.

NASB
2:10 - For wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
2:11 - Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,
2:12 - To deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things;
2:13 - From those who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
2:14 - Who delight in doing evil and rejoice in the perversity of evil;
2:15 - Whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
2:16 - To deliver you from the strange woman, from the adulteress who flatters with her words;
2:17 - That leaves the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
19:11 - A man's discretion makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook a transgression

KJV
2:10 - When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
2:11 - Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
2:12 - To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
2:13 - Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
2:14 - Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
2:15 - Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
2:16 - To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
2:17 - Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
19:11 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.


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