Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
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Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
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Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
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Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, and equity, yea, every good path.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 2:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 6:16 Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
- Psalms 143:8-10 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you. Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me. Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
- Isaiah 48:17 Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
- Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.
- Proverbs 1:2-6 to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding; to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man: that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel: to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
- Psalms 25:8-9 Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
- Psalms 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
- Psalms 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
- John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
- Psalms 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
- Isaiah 35:8 A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment,…
Pro 2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.
Ver. 9. Then shalt thou understand righteousness.] Not as cognoscitiva, standing in speculation; but as directiva vitae, a rule of life. Knowledge is either apprehensive only, or affective also. This differs from that, as much as the light of the sun, wherein is the influence of an enlivening power, from the light of torches.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Then; when thou hast done thy part, expressed Pro…
Then; when thou hast done thy part, expressed Pro 2:1-3, &c., and God in answer to thy desires hath given thee wisdom, Pro 2:6; or when it is with thee, as it follows, Pro 2:10. Righteousness, and judgment, and equity; all the parts of thy duty to man, as well as the fear of God, Pro 2:5, which contains all duties to God. These three words are used here, as also Pro 1:3, to signify the same thing. Every good path; the practice of all virtues and graces.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment,.... This is…
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment,.... This is another fruit and effect of the Gospel, and of a spiritual understanding of it; that besides the knowledge of God, and how to behave with reverence towards him, Pro 2:5; it leads men into a notion of doing that which is right and just among men; it gives them not only a theoretic but a practical understanding of justice, and a true judgment of what is right and wrong; or gives such an understanding thereof as that they practise it; for it teaches men to live soberly, righteously, and godly, Tit 2:11. It is not only a revelation and ministration of the righteousness of Christ as the only matter of a sinner's justification before God; and informs a man's judgment so that he can distinguish between truth and error, right and wrong, good and bad notions and practices; but it influences his actions, life, and conversation, and engages him to do works of righteousness from the best principles, upon the best motives, and with the best views;
and equity; yea, every good path; that is, so to understand equity, as to do that which is equitable between man and man; and to understand every good path which the word of God directs to, even all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, so as to walk in them; these things the Gospel acquaints men with, and urges them to observe: or the words may be rendered, either "the rectitude" or "equity of fall good paths", as the Syriac version; how just, and right, and plain, and equitable, everyone is, and therefore ought to be walked in; or "plainnesses", or "most plain", is or shall be "every good path" (r), to them that have a spiritual and experimental knowledge of the Gospel; and by it an understanding of their duty. One word signifies "plain" and "straight", and another "round" (s), and both are true of the path of righteousness; for though it is a circle of duty saints walk in, yet straight and plain.
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(r) So Schmidt. (s) "complanationes", Schultens; "orbitam", Montanus; "ab rotundus", Gejerus.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Then - When God in answer to thy desires…
Then - When God in answer to thy desires hath given thee wisdom. Equity - All the parts of thy duty to man, as well as the fear of God.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. Then shalt thou understand] He who is…
Verse 9. Then shalt thou understand] He who is taught of God understands the whole law of justice, mercy, righteousness, and truth; God has written this on his heart. He who understands these things by books only is never likely to practise or profit by them.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Then--emphatic, in such a case.
Then--emphatic, in such a case.
righteousness . . . path--all parts of duty to God and man.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. Then — Referring back to Pro_2:1-4, from which…
9. Then — Referring back to Pro_2:1-4, from which the instructor started out with the same particle as at Pro_2:5. This verse is a summing up of vs.
5-8, and connects with Pro_1:3, where he states the object of his work to be, to impart clear, discriminating instructions in righteousness, judgment, and equities. (See note on Pro_1:3.)
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Every good path — The practice of every virtue and grace. “The whole good track.” — Miller. The teacher has thus made a circle, so to speak, by which he has come around to his starting point.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Then (za, az), repeated from ver. 5, introduces the…
Then (za, az), repeated from ver. 5, introduces the second apodosis. As the former referred to God, so this appears to refer more especially to man, and thus we have stated the whole benefit, in its twofold aspect, which Wisdom confers on those who diligently seek her. It is not to be affirmed, however, that righteousness and judgment and equity refer exclusively to man; they must represent some aspects of our relationship to God, both from the meaning of the words themselves, and because the law which regulates our dealings and intercourse with man has its seat in the higher law of our relation to God. Righteousness, and judgment, and equity. These three words occur in the same collocation in Pro_1:3, which see. Yea, every good path. "Yea" does not occur in the original. The expression is a summarizing of the three previous conceptions, as if the teacher implied that all good paths are embraced by and included in "righteousness, and judgment, and equity;" but the term is also comprehensive in the widest degree. The literal translation is "every path of good" (bwOfAlGumAlK, cal-ma"gal-tov), i.e. every course of action of which goodness is the characteristic, or, as the Authorized Version, "every good path," the sense in which it was understood by St. Jerome, omnem orbitam bonam. The word here used for "path" is lGm (ma"gal), "the way in which the chariot rolls" (Delitzsch), and metaphorically a course of action, as in Pro_2:15 Pro_4:26.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 every good path
equity
fairness
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every good path
A behavior that is wise and pleases Yahweh is spoken of as if it were a good path. AT: "ways to live that are pleasing to God" (See: Metaphor)
wisdom will come into your heart
Here "heart" represents a person's inner being. A person becoming wise is spoken of as if wisdom would enter into a person's heart. AT: "you will gain much wisdom" or "you will learn how to be truly wise" (See: Metonymy and Metaphor)
pleasant to your soul
Here "soul" represents the whole person. AT: "pleasing to you" or "enjoyable to you" (See: Synecdoche)
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righteous
just
wise
heart
know
soul
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