Proverbs 1:3
New International Version
for receiving instruction in prudent behavior, doing what is right and just and fair;

New Living Translation
Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is right, just, and fair.

English Standard Version
to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

Berean Standard Bible
and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.

King James Bible
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

New King James Version
To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, judgment, and equity;

New American Standard Bible
To receive instruction in wise behavior, Righteousness, justice, and integrity;

NASB 1995
To receive instruction in wise behavior, Righteousness, justice and equity;

NASB 1977
To receive instruction in wise behavior, Righteousness, justice and equity;

Legacy Standard Bible
To receive discipline that leads to insight, Righteousness, justice, and equity,

Amplified Bible
To receive instruction in wise behavior and the discipline of wise thoughtfulness, Righteousness, justice, and integrity;

Christian Standard Bible
for receiving prudent instruction in righteousness, justice, and integrity;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for receiving wise instruction in righteousness, justice, and integrity;

American Standard Version
To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
To receive instruction and awe and righteousness and judgment and uprightness;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
to receive also hard saying, and to understand true justice, and how to direct judgement;

Contemporary English Version
You will learn what is right and honest and fair.

Douay-Rheims Bible
and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:

English Revised Version
To receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness and judgment and equity;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
to acquire the discipline of wise behavior- righteousness and justice and fairness-

Good News Translation
They can teach you how to live intelligently and how to be honest, just, and fair.

International Standard Version
for acquiring the discipline that produces wise behavior, righteousness, justice, and upright living;

JPS Tanakh 1917
To receive the discipline of wisdom, Justice, and right, and equity;

Literal Standard Version
For receiving the instruction of wisdom, | Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,

Majority Standard Bible
and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.

New American Bible
May receive instruction in wise conduct, in what is right, just and fair;

NET Bible
To receive moral instruction in skillful living, in righteousness, justice, and equity.

New Revised Standard Version
for gaining instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity;

New Heart English Bible
To receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity.

Webster's Bible Translation
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

World English Bible
to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

Young's Literal Translation
For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,

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Context
The Beginning of Knowledge
2for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight, 3and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity. 4To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,…

Cross References
Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

Proverbs 2:9
Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity--every good path.

Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.


Treasury of Scripture

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

receive

Proverbs 2:1,9
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; …

Proverbs 8:10,11
Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold…

Job 22:22
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

equity

1 Kings 3:28
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.

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Proverbs 1
1. The use of the proverbs
7. An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word
10. to avoid the enticing of sinners
20. Wisdom complains of her contempt
24. She threatens her contemners














(3) To receive the instruction of wisdom.--To take in, or appropriate, the "discipline" which results in "prudence" (hask?l) or practical wisdom; so David "behaved himself wisely" (1Samuel 18:5).

Equity.--Literally, what is straight, so true, honest.

Verse 3. - To receive the instruction of wisdom. This verse carries on the statement of the design of the Proverbs. To receive; Hebrew, לְקַחַת (lakakhath), not the same word as "to know" (לָדַּעַת), in ver. 2, though regarded as synonymous with it by Delitzsch. Its meaning is well represented by the LXX. δέξασθαι, and the Authorized Version "to receive." The Hebrew, לָקַחַת, is infinitive, and means properly "to take, or lay hold of," hence "to receive," Greek, δέχομαι, No doubt it conveys the idea of intellectual reception (cf. Proverbs 2:1). The instruction of wisdom; Hebrew, מוּסַר הַשְׂכֵּל (musar has'kel); i.e. the discipline or moral training which leads on to reason, intelligence, or wisdom (as Hitzig, Fuerst, Zockler); or discipline full of insight, discernment, or thoughtfulness (as Umbreit, Ewald, Delitzsch). The phrase does not mean the wisdom which instruction imparts. The word musar occurs here in a slightly different sense from its use in ver. 2; there it is objective, here its meaning as a medium for the attainment of wisdom is more distinctly brought out. Wisdom (haskel) is properly "thoughtfulness" (so Umbreit. Ewald, Delitzsch, Plumptre). It is strictly the infinitive absolute of שָׂכַל (sakal), "to entwine or involve," and as a substantive it stands for the thinking through of a subject, so "thoughtfulness." The LXX. renders this sentence, δέξασθαί τε στροφὰς, which St. Jerome understands as "versutias sermonum et solutiones aenigmatum" ("the cunning or craftiness of words and the explication of enigmas"). Justice, and judgment, and equity. These words seem to be the unfolding of the meaning contained in the expression, "the instruction of wisdom." Holden regards the last four words as objective genitives dependent on "instruction," but wrongly. Cornelius a Laplde states that "justice and judgment and equity" indicate the same thing in different aspects. "Justice stands for the thing itself - that which is just; judgment in respect of right reason, which says it is just; and equity in respect of its being agreeable to the Law of God." Justice; Hebrew, צֶדֶק (tsedek), from the root צָדַק (tsadak), "to be right, or straight;" in a moral sense it means "rectitude," "right," as in Isaiah 15:2 (Gesenius). The underlying idea is that of straightness. Heidenheim, quoted by Delitzsch, maintains that in tsedek the conception of the justum prevails; but the latter enlarges its meaning, and holds that it also has the idea of a mode of thought and action regulated, not by the letter of the Law, but by love, as in Isaiah 41:2; Isaiah 42:6. Plumptre thinks "righteousness" would be a better translation of the word, on the ground that the Hebrew includes the ideas of truth and beneficence. Compare with this the LXX. δικαιοσύνη. Zockler also renders "righteousness," i.e. "that which is in accord with the will and ordinances of God as Supreme Judge." In the Authorized Version, in Proverbs 2:9, where we have the same collocation of words, tsedek is translated "righteousness;" cf. Proverbs 12:17, "He who utters truth shows forth righteousness (tsedek)." Judgment; Hebrew, מְשְׁפָּט (mish'pat), from the root שָׁפַּט (shapat), "to adjust, judge," corresponds with the Hebrew in meaning; it is the delivery of a correct judgment on human actions. Compare the LXX. κρίμα κατευθύνειν. Equity; i.e. rectitude in thought and action (Delitzsch), or integrity (Zockler). This quality expresses upright demeanour or honoumble action on one's own part individually, while "judgment" has regard both to our own and the actions of others. The Hebrew, mesharim (מֵשָׁרִים), used only in the plural, is from the root יָשַׁר (yashar), "to be straight or even," and is equal to "uprightness." The plural form is reproduced in the marginal reading "equities;" comp. Psalm 17:2, "Let thine eyes beheld the things that are equal (mesharim)." The Vulgate reads aequitas and the Syriae rectitudo. The two ideas in judgment and equity appear to be expressed in the LXX. by the phrase. κρίμα κατευθύνειν.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
to receive
לָ֭קַחַת (lā·qa·ḥaṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3947: To take

instruction
מוּסַ֣ר (mū·sar)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4148: Chastisement, reproof, warning, instruction, restraint

in wise living,
הַשְׂכֵּ֑ל (haś·kêl)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 7919: To be, circumspect, intelligent

in righteousness,
צֶ֥דֶק (ṣe·ḏeq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6664: The right, equity, prosperity

justice,
וּ֝מִשְׁפָּ֗ט (ū·miš·pāṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

and equity,
וּמֵישָׁרִֽים׃ (ū·mê·šā·rîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4339: Evenness, prosperity, concord, straightness, rectitude


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