Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, New Living Translation Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding. English Standard Version Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, Berean Standard Bible Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding, King James Bible Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. New King James Version Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding; New American Standard Bible Blessed is a person who finds wisdom, And one who obtains understanding. NASB 1995 How blessed is the man who finds wisdom And the man who gains understanding. NASB 1977 How blessed is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding. Legacy Standard Bible How blessed is the man who finds wisdom And the man who obtains discernment. Amplified Bible Happy [blessed, considered fortunate, to be admired] is the man who finds [skillful and godly] wisdom, And the man who gains understanding and insight [learning from God’s word and life’s experiences], Christian Standard Bible Happy is a man who finds wisdom and who acquires understanding, Holman Christian Standard Bible Happy is a man who finds wisdom and who acquires understanding, American Standard Version Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, And the man that getteth understanding. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Blessed is the man who finds wisdom and the son of man who finds understanding Brenton Septuagint Translation Blessed is the man who has found wisdom, and the mortal who knows prudence. Contemporary English Version God blesses everyone who has wisdom and common sense. Douay-Rheims Bible Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom and is rich in prudence: English Revised Version Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. GOD'S WORD® Translation Blessed is the one who finds wisdom and the one who obtains understanding. Good News Translation Happy is anyone who becomes wise--who comes to have understanding. International Standard Version How joyful is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding, JPS Tanakh 1917 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, And the man that obtaineth understanding. Literal Standard Version O the blessedness of a man [who] has found wisdom, | And of a man [who] brings forth understanding. Majority Standard Bible Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding, New American Bible Happy the one who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding! NET Bible Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who obtains understanding. New Revised Standard Version Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding, New Heart English Bible Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. Webster's Bible Translation Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. World English Bible Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. Young's Literal Translation O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Blessings of Wisdom13Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding, 14for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold.… Cross References Job 28:15 It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver. Proverbs 8:9 They are all plain to the discerning, and upright to those who find knowledge. Proverbs 8:32 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways. Proverbs 8:34 Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway. Treasury of Scripture Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding. is the Proverbs 4:5-9 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth… Proverbs 8:32-35 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways… 1 Kings 10:1-9,23,24 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions… getteth Proverbs 2:4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Proverbs 18:1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. Jump to Previous Blessed Discovery Findeth Finds Forth Found Gains Gets Getteth Happiness Happy Makes Obtaineth Understanding WisdomJump to Next Blessed Discovery Findeth Finds Forth Found Gains Gets Getteth Happiness Happy Makes Obtaineth Understanding WisdomProverbs 3 1. various exhortations13. The gain of wisdom 27. Exhortation to goodness 33. the different state of the wicked and upright Verses 13-18. - The teacher here enters upon the last part of this discourse. In doing so, he reverts to his main subject, which is Wisdom, or the fear of the Lord (see ver. 7 and Proverbs 1:7), and pronounces a panegyric upon her, comparing her, as in Job 28, with treasures whose value she exceeds, and showing wherein that value consists, viz. in the gifts which she confers on man. Verse 13. - Happy is the man (ash'rey adam); literally, blessings of the man. The plural of "excellence" used here, as in Job 5:17, to raise the sense. The man who has found Wisdom is supremely blessed. Beds connects this blessedness immediately with God's chastisements in the preceding verse. So Delitzsch. That findeth (matsa); properly, hath found. "The perfect expresses permanent possession, just as the imperfect, yaphik, denotes a continually renewed and repeated attaining" (Zockler). The Vulgate also uses the perfect, invenit, "hath found;" LXX., ο{ς εϋρε, "who found" - the aorist. The man that getteth understanding (adam yaphik t'vunah); literally, the man that draweth out understanding, as in the margin. Yaphik is the hiph. future or imperfect of puk, the primary meaning of which is educere, "to draw out," "to bring forth." This verb is used in two widely different senses. In the first place, it is equivalent to "bring forth" or "draw out" in the sense of imparting, as in Isaiah 58:10, "If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry," i.e. impart benefits to them; and Psalm 145:13, "That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store," i.e. yielding, giving out, presenting for our benefit. Its second sense is that of attaining, drawing out from another for one's own use. In this sense it occurs in Proverbs 8:35; Proverbs 12:2; Proverbs 18:22, where it is rendered "obtain." The latter sense is the one that suits the present passage, and best agrees with the corresponding matsa. The man is blessed who draws forth, i.e. obtains, understanding from God for himself. The Vulgate renders, qui affluit prudentia, "who overflows with understanding," or, has understanding in abundance; LXX., ο{ς εῖδε, equivalent to "who saw." Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Blessedאַשְׁרֵ֣י (’aš·rê) Interjection Strong's 835: Happiness, interjection, how happy! [is] the man אָ֭דָם (’ā·ḏām) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being who finds מָצָ֣א (mā·ṣā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present wisdom, חָכְמָ֑ה (ḥāḵ·māh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2451: Wisdom the man וְ֝אָדָ֗ם (wə·’ā·ḏām) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being who acquires יָפִ֥יק (yā·p̄îq) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6329: To issue, furnish, to secure, to succeed understanding, תְּבוּנָֽה׃ (tə·ḇū·nāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8394: Intelligence, an argument, caprice Links Proverbs 3:13 NIVProverbs 3:13 NLT Proverbs 3:13 ESV Proverbs 3:13 NASB Proverbs 3:13 KJV Proverbs 3:13 BibleApps.com Proverbs 3:13 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 3:13 Chinese Bible Proverbs 3:13 French Bible Proverbs 3:13 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 3:13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom (Prov. 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