Proverbs 2:10 {11}
Good News Translation
You will become wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure.

New Revised Standard Version
for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

Contemporary English Version
Wisdom will control your mind, and you will be pleased with knowledge.

New American Bible
For wisdom will enter your heart, knowledge will be at home in your soul,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

Proverbs 18:1,2 He that hath a mind to depart from a friend, seeketh occasions: he shall ever be subject to reproach. . . .

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Proverbs 24:13,14 Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat. . . .

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Job 23:12 I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

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Psalm 19:10 More to be desired than gold and many precious stones: and sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.

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Psalm 104:34 Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I will take delight in the Lord.

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Psalm 119:97,103,111,162 O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day. . . .

Jeremiah 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord God of hosts.

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
9If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul: 10Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,11That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:…
Cross References
Proverbs 1:4
A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.

Proverbs 14:33
In the heart of the prudent resteth wisdom, and it shall instruct all the ignorant.

Proverbs 22:18
Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:

Proverbs 24:14
So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou hast found, thou shalt have hope in the end, and thy hope shall not perish.

Proverbs 2:9
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