Verse List for PROV 2:3

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) if you’ll call out for insight, ⇔ ≈ raising your voice to ask for understanding,

OET-LV If/because if to_discernment you _will _call to_understanding you _will _give _forth voice _of_your.

ULT indeed, if for insight you call out, ⇔ for understanding you lift up your voice,

UST Yes, cry out to God for him to show you what you should perceive. ⇔  Call loudly to God for him to teach you what you should understand!

BSB & MSB if you truly call out to insight ⇔  and lift your voice to understanding,

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB yes, if you call out for discernment, ⇔  and lift up your voice for understanding;

NET indeed, if you call out for discernment – ⇔ raise your voice for understanding –

LSV For if you call for intelligence,
[And] give forth your voice for intelligence,

FBV if you cry out for insight and call loudly for help in understanding;

T4T Call out to God to get insight; ⇔  plead with him to help you to understand more of what he wants you to know.

LEB • For if you cry out for understanding,[fn]
• if you lift[fn] your voice for insight,

BBE Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

Moff if you cry to intelligence ⇔  and call for knowledge,

JPS Yea, if thou call for understanding, and lift up thy voice for discernment;

ASV Yea, if thou cry after discernment, ⇔ And lift up thy voice for understanding;

DRA For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:

YLT For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,

Drby yea, if thou criest after discernment [and] liftest up thy voice to understanding;

RV Yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding;
(Yea, if thou/you cry after discernment, and lift up thy/your voice for understanding;)

SLT For if thou will call to understanding, wilt give thy voice to understanding.

Wbstr Yes, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

KJB-1769 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;[fn]
(Yea, if thou/you criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy/your voice for understanding;)

KJB-1611 Yea if thou cryest after knowledge, and [fn]liftest vp thy voyce for vnderstanding:
(Yea if thou/you cryest after knowledge, and liftest up thy/your voice for understanding:)

Bshps For if thou cryest after wisdome, and cryest for knowledge:
(For if thou/you cryest after wisdom, and cryest for knowledge:)

Gnva (For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for vnderstanding:
((For if thou/you callest/call after knowledge, and cryest for understanding:)

Cvdl For yf thou criest after wy?dome, & callest for knowlege:
(For if thou/you criest after wisdom, and callest/call for knowledge:)

Wycl For if thou inwardli clepist wisdom, and bowist thin herte to prudence;
(For if thou/you inwardly clepist wisdom, and boughst thin heart to prudence;)

Luth Denn so du mit Fleiß danach rufest und darum betest,
(Because so you(sg) with diligence after/thereafter/then call and therefore pray,)

ClVg Si enim sapientiam invocaveris, et inclinaveris cor tuum prudentiæ;
(When/But_if because wisdom invocaveris, and incline/leanveris heart your(sg) of_prudence;)

UHB כִּ֤י אִ֣ם לַ⁠בִּינָ֣ה תִקְרָ֑א לַ֝⁠תְּבוּנָ֗ה תִּתֵּ֥ן קוֹלֶֽ⁠ךָ׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἐὰν γὰρ τὴν σοφίαν ἐπικαλέσῃ, καὶ τῇ συνέσει δῷς φωνήν σου,

BrTr For if thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding;