Proverbs 2:3

Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

World English Bible
Learn

Your notes

Private to you. Anything you write on this verse, here or while reading, shows up here and in My study.

Other translations

WEBBE

yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

BSB

if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,

KJV

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

ASV

Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

BBE

Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

Original Hebrew

Look up a word

Tap a word to see what it means and everywhere else it's used.

כִּי ki that H3588 אִם 'im except H518 לַבִּינָה la·bi·nah to (the) discernment H998 תִקְרָא tik·ra' you will call H7121 לַתְּבוּנָה la·te·vu·nah to (the) understanding H8394 תִּתֵּן ti·ten you will give H5414 קוֹלֶךָ ko·le·cha voice your H6963

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–9

Those who earnestly seek heavenly wisdom, will never complain that they have lost their labour; and the freeness of the gift does not do away the necessity of our diligence, Joh 6:27 Let them seek, and they shall find it; let them ask, and it shall be given them. Observe who are thus favoured. They are the righteous, on whom the image of God is renewed, which consists in righteousness. If we depend upon God, and seek to him for wisdom, he will enable us to keep the paths of judgment.

Read Matthew Henry on Proverbs 2 →

Cross-references

13

Topics

PrayerSeekersDesireHunger

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.