Proverbs 2:3
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New International Version (©1984)
and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding;

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
if indeed you call out for insight, if you ask aloud for understanding,

King James Bible
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

American King James Version
Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;

American Standard Version
Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

Bible in Basic English
Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:

Darby Bible Translation
yea, if thou criest after discernment and liftest up thy voice to understanding;

English Revised Version
Yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding;

Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

World English Bible
Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

Young's Literal Translation
For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,

Geneva Study Bible

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and {c} liftest up thy voice for understanding;

(c) Meaning that we must seek the knowledge of God with care and diligence.

Wesley's Notes

2:3 Criest - To God, the only giver of it.

King James Translators' Notes

liftest...: Heb. givest thy voice

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. Yea, if-literally, "When if," that is, in such a case.

knowledge-or, "discrimination."

understanding-as in Pr 2:2.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:1-9 Those who earnestly seek heavenly wisdom, will never complain that they have lost their labour; and the freeness of the gift does not do away the necessity of our diligence, Joh 6:27. Let them seek, and they shall find it; let them ask, and it shall be given them. Observe who are thus favoured. They are the righteous, on whom the image of God is renewed, which consists in righteousness. If we depend upon God, and seek to him for wisdom, he will enable us to keep the paths of judgment.


Proverbs 2:2 Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:4 If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures; (NASB ©1995)

Aloud Criest Cry Crying Discernment Forth Givest Good Insight Intelligence Lift Raise Request Sense Understanding Voice

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

if 3:6 8:17 1Ki 3:9-12 1Ch 22:12 Ps 25:4,5 119:34,73,125,169 Lu 11:13 Eph 1:17,18 Jas 1:5

liftest up thy voice

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