Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Holman Bible
and a gold chain around your neck.
International Standard Version
They will be a graceful wreath for your head and a chain for your neck.
A Conservative Version
For they shall be a garland of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Amplified
For they are a garland of grace on your head,
And chains and ornaments [of gold] around your neck.
Bible in Basic English
For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
Darby Translation
for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Julia Smith Translation
For they a garland of grace to thy head, and necklaces for thy throat
King James 2000
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.
Lexham Expanded Bible
for they [are] a garland of favor for your head, and pendants for your neck.
Modern King James verseion
for they shall be an ornament of grace to your head and chains around your neck.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
for that shall bring grace unto thy head, and shall be a chain about thy neck.
NET Bible
For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.
New Heart English Bible
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and a necklace around your neck.
The Emphasized Bible
For, a wreath of beauty, shall they be to thy head, and chains of ornament, to thy neck.
Webster
For they shalt be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.
World English Bible
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.
Youngs Literal Translation
For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
Themes
Adorning » Spiritual » General references
Adorning » Rich apparel » Chains used as ornaments
Children » Should » Attend to parental teaching
Interlinear
Ro'sh
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 1:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Advice To The Young
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:9
She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; A crown of beauty will she deliver to thee.
Genesis 41:42
And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
Daniel 5:29
Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Proverbs 3:22
So shall they be life unto thy soul, And grace to thy neck.
Proverbs 6:20-21
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
Song of Songs 1:10
Thy cheeks are comely with plaits of hair , Thy neck with strings of jewels.
Song of Songs 4:9
Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my bride; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.
Isaiah 3:19
the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers;
Ezekiel 16:11
And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
Daniel 5:7
The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel 5:16
But I have heard of thee, that thou canst give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
1 Timothy 2:9-10
In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;
1 Peter 3:3-4
Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;