Proverbs 22:18
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New International Version (©1984)
for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, That they may be ready on your lips.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
It is pleasant if you keep them in mind [so that] they will be on the tip of your tongue,

King James Bible
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

American King James Version
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall with be fitted in your lips.

American Standard Version
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.

Bible in Basic English
For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:

Darby Bible Translation
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.

English Revised Version
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.

Webster's Bible Translation
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

World English Bible
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Young's Literal Translation
For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.

Geneva Study Bible

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

Wesley's Notes

22:18 Fitted - Fitly expressed: thou wilt be able to discourse profitably of them.

King James Translators' Notes

within...: Heb. in thy belly

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

18. These lessons must be laid up in the mind, and

fitted-or better, "fixed" in the lips so as to be ever ready.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:17-21. To these words, to this knowledge, the ear must be bowed down, and the heart applied by faith and love. To live a life of delight in God and dependence on him, is the foundation of all practical religion. The way to know the certainty of the word of truth, is to make conscience of our duty. 22,23. He that robs and oppresses the poor, does so at his peril. And if men will not appear for them, God will. 24,25. Our corrupt hearts have so much tinder in them, that it is dangerous to have to do with those that throw about the sparks of their passion.


Proverbs 2:10 For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; (NASB ©1995)

Altogether Delight Established Fitted Heart Keepest Lips Pleasant Pleasing Prepared Ready Together Withal Within


For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

it is 2:10 3:17 24:13,14 Ps 19:10 119:103,111,162 Jer 15:16

within thee Job 32:18,19 Joh 7:38

fitted 8:6 10:13,21 15:7 16:21 25:11 Ps 119:13,171 Mal 2:7 Heb 13:15

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