Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out.

New American Standard Bible

“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,
And I find knowledge and discretion.

King James Version

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

Holman Bible

I, Wisdom, share a home with shrewdness
and have knowledge and discretion.

International Standard Version

"I, wisdom, am related to prudence. I know how to be discreet.

A Conservative Version

I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling, and find out knowledge [and] discretion.

American Standard Version

I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion.

Amplified


“I, [godly] wisdom, reside with prudence [good judgment, moral courage and astute common sense],
And I find knowledge and discretion.

Bible in Basic English

I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes.

Darby Translation

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find the knowledge which cometh of reflection.

Julia Smith Translation

I wisdom dwelt with prudence, and I shall find the knowledge of machinations.

King James 2000

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge and discretion.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.

Modern King James verseion

I, wisdom, dwell with sense, and find out knowledge of discretions.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"I, wisdom, have my dwelling with knowledge, and prudent counsel is mine own.

NET Bible

"I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.

New Heart English Bible

"I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

The Emphasized Bible

I, wisdom, inhabit shrewdness, - and, the knowledge of sagacious things, I gain.

Webster

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of ingenious inventions.

World English Bible

"I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I wisdom
חכמה 
Chokmah 
Usage: 149

שׁכן 
Shakan 
Usage: 128

with prudence
ערמה 
`ormah 
Usage: 5

and find out
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

דּעת 
Da`ath 
Usage: 91

References

Hastings

Wit

Morish

Images Proverbs 8:12

Context Readings

Wisdom Calls

11 For better is wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it. 12 I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out. 13 The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.



Cross References

Proverbs 1:4

For giving to simple ones -- prudence, To a youth -- knowledge and discretion.

Exodus 31:3-6

and I fill him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work,

Exodus 35:30-4

And Moses saith unto the sons of Israel, 'See, Jehovah hath called by name Bezaleel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

1 Kings 7:14

he is son of a woman, a widow, of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father a man of Tyre, a worker in brass, and he is filled with the wisdom and the understanding, and the knowledge to do all work in brass -- and he cometh unto king Solomon, and doth all his work.

1 Chronicles 28:12

and the pattern of all that hath been by the Spirit with him, for the courts of the house of Jehovah, and for all the chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of God, and for the treasures of the things sacrificed;

1 Chronicles 28:19

The whole is in writing from the hand of Jehovah, 'He caused me to understand all the work of the pattern,' said David.

2 Chronicles 13:14

And Judah turneth, and lo, against them is the battle, before and behind, and they cry to Jehovah, and the priests are blowing with trumpets,

Psalm 104:24

How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.

Isaiah 28:26

And instruct him for judgment doth his God, He doth direct him.

Isaiah 55:8-9

For not My thoughts are your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah,

Romans 11:33

O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

Ephesians 1:8

in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

Ephesians 1:11

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

Ephesians 3:10

that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

Colossians 2:3

in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

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