Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

because those who find me find life and gain favor from the LORD.

New American Standard Bible

“For he who finds me finds life
And obtains favor from the Lord.

King James Version

For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.

Holman Bible

For the one who finds me finds life
and obtains favor from the Lord,

A Conservative Version

For he who finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of LORD.

American Standard Version

For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.

Amplified


“For whoever finds me (Wisdom) finds life
And obtains favor and grace from the Lord.

Bible in Basic English

For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.

Darby Translation

For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of Jehovah;

Julia Smith Translation

For he finding me, the finding of life, and he shall bnng forth acceptance from Jehovah.

King James 2000

For whosoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For he who finds me [is] he who finds life, and he obtains favor from Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor from Jehovah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For whoso findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.

NET Bible

For the one who finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord.

New Heart English Bible

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from the LORD.

The Emphasized Bible

For, he that findeth me, findeth life, and hath obtained favour from Yahweh;

Webster

For whoever findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor from the LORD.

World English Bible

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

Youngs Literal Translation

For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

me findeth
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

פּוּק 
Puwq 
Usage: 7

רצן רצון 
Ratsown 
Usage: 56

References

Fausets

Law

Hastings

Context Readings

Benefits Of Following Wisdom

34 Blessed is the person who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorways 35 because those who find me find life and gain favor from the LORD. 36 But whoever sins against me destroys himself; everyone who hates me loves death."


Cross References

Proverbs 12:2

The good person will gain favor from the LORD, but the man who plots evil will be condemned by him.

Proverbs 3:13-18

How joyful is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding,

Proverbs 1:33

"But the person who listens to me will live safely and will be secure from the fear of evil."

Proverbs 4:22

For they are life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.

John 3:16

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

John 3:36

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

John 14:6

Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah.

Ephesians 1:6

so that we would praise his glorious grace that he gave us in the Beloved One.

Philippians 3:8

What is more, I continue to consider all these things to be a loss for the sake of what is far more valuable, knowing the Messiah Jesus, my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish in order to gain the Messiah

Colossians 3:3

For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God.

1 John 5:11-12

This is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is found in his Son.

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