Proverbs 22:20

I have written [RHQ] 30 ◄sayings/things that wise people have said► from which you will receive good advice and you will be able you to know many good/useful things.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

In Context

19I want you to trust in Yahweh, and that is the reason that I am telling them to you, now.

21From them, you will learn what is right and what is true, in order that you will be able to bring back a good report to those who sent you to school (OR, give a good answer to those who ask you questions).

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Cross References

Proverbs 8:6Listen to me, because I have some excellent/important things to say. What I say is what is fair/right.

2 Timothy 3:15From the time when you were a child you have known the holy writings/Scriptures. You now know that they enabled you to become wise so that God saved you because of your believing in Christ Jesus.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:18-22

Serious Attention Inculcated. 17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. 18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. 19 That thy trust may be in the Lord , I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. 20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, 21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that… Read the whole commentary →

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