Proverbs 3:4
New International Version
Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.

New Living Translation
Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation.

English Standard Version
So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Berean Standard Bible
Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.

King James Bible
So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

New King James Version
And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man.

New American Standard Bible
So you will find favor and a good reputation In the sight of God and man.

NASB 1995
So you will find favor and good repute In the sight of God and man.

NASB 1977
So you will find favor and good repute In the sight of God and man.

Legacy Standard Bible
So you will find favor and good insight In the eyes of God and man.

Amplified Bible
So find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man.

Christian Standard Bible
Then you will find favor and high regard with God and people.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.

American Standard Version
So shalt thou find favor and good understanding In the sight of God and man.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
That you may find mercies and grace and intelligence in the presence of God and in the presence of the children of men.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
so shalt thou find favour: and do thou provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men.

Contemporary English Version
God and people will like you and hold you in high esteem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt And grace and good understanding before God and men.

English Revised Version
So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then you will find favor and much success in the sight of God and humanity.

Good News Translation
If you do this, both God and people will be pleased with you.

International Standard Version
and find favor and a good reputation with God and men.

JPS Tanakh 1917
So shalt thou find grace and good favour In the sight of God and man.

Literal Standard Version
And find grace and good understanding | In the eyes of God and man.

Majority Standard Bible
Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.

New American Bible
Then will you win favor and esteem before God and human beings.

NET Bible
Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people.

New Revised Standard Version
So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and of people.

New Heart English Bible
So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Webster's Bible Translation
So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

World English Bible
So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Young's Literal Translation
And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.

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Context
Trust in the LORD
3Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man. 5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;…

Cross References
Luke 2:52
And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

2 Corinthians 8:21
For we are taking great care to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of men.

1 Samuel 2:26
And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.

Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!

Proverbs 8:35
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.

Proverbs 12:2
The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.

Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the faithless is difficult.


Treasury of Scripture

So shall you find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

shalt

Genesis 39:2-4,21
And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian…

1 Samuel 2:26
And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.

Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

good understanding

Joshua 1:7,8
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest…

Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

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Proverbs 3
1. various exhortations
13. The gain of wisdom
27. Exhortation to goodness
33. the different state of the wicked and upright














(4) Favour and good understanding.--Particularly noted as distinguishing the childhood of our Lord (Luke 2:52).

Verse 4. - So shalt thou find (vum'lsa); literally, and find. A peculiar use of the imperative, the imperative kal (m'tsa) with vau consecutive (וִ) being equivalent to the future, "thou shalt find," as in the Authorized Version. This construction, where two imperatives are joined, the former containing an exhortation or admonition, the second a promise made on the condition implied in the first, and the second imperative being used as a future, occurs again in Proverbs 4:4; Proverbs 7:2, "Keep my commandments, and live;" 9:6, "Forsake the foolish, and live;" 20:13, "Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread" (cf. Genesis 42:18; Psalm 37:27; Job 22:21; Isaiah 36:16; Hosea 10:12; Amos 5:4-6; Gesenius, § 130, 2). Delitzsch calls this "an admonitory imperative;" Bottcher, "the desponsive imperative." Compare the Greek construction in Menander, Οϊδ ὅτι ποίησον, for ποιήσεις, "Know that this you will do." Find (matza); here simply "to attain," "obtain," not necessarily implying previous search, as in Proverbs 17:20. Favour (khen). The same word is frequently translated "grace," and means the same thing; Vulgate, gratia; LXX., χαρίς. For the expression, "to find favour" (matsa khen), see Genesis 6:8; Exodus 33:12; Jeremiah 31:2; comp. Luke 1:30, Αῦρες γὰρ χάριν παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ." For thou hast found favour [or, 'grace'] with God." spoken by Gabriel to the Virgin. Good understanding (sekel tov); i.e. good sagacity, or prudence. So Delitzsch, Bertheau, Kamph. A true sagacity, prudence, or penetrating judgment will be adjudicated by God and man to him who possesses the internal excellence of love and truth. The Hebrew sekel is derived from sakal, "to act wisely or prudently," and has this intellectual meaning in Proverbs 13:15; Psalm 111:10 (see also 1 Samuel 25:3 and 2 Chronicles 30:22). The Targum Jonathan reads, intellectus et benignitas, thus throwing the adjective into a substantival form; the Syriac, intellectus simply. Ewald, Hitzig, Zockler, and others, on the other hand, understand sekel as referring to the judgment formed of any one, the favourable opinion or view which is entertained of hint by others, and hence take it as reputation, or estimation. The man who has love and truth will be held in high esteem by God and man. Our objection to this rendering is that it does not seem to advance the meaning of the passage beyond that of "favour." Another, mentioned by Delitzsch, is that sekel is never used in any other sense than that of intellectus in the Mishle. The marginal reading, "good success," i.e. prosperity, seems inadmissible here, as the hiph. has'kil, "to cause to prosper," as in Proverbs 17:8; Joshua 1:7; Deuteronomy 29:9, does not apply in this instance any more than in Psalm 111:10, margin. In the sight of God and man (b'eyney elohim v'adam); literally, in the eyes of Elohim and man; i.e. according to the judgment of God and man (Zockler); Vulgate, coram Deo et hominibus. A simpler form of this phrase is found in 1 Samuel 2:26, where Samuel is said to have found favour with the Lord, and also with men. So in Luke 2:52 Jesus found favour "with God and man (παρὰ Θεῷ καὶ ἀνθρώποις)" (comp. Genesis 10:9; Acts 2:47, Romans 14:18). The two conditions of favor and sagacity, or prudence, are not to be assigned respectively to God and man (as Ewald and Hitzig), or that finding favour has reference more to God, and being deemed prudent refers more to man. The statement is universal. Both these conditions will be adjudged to the man who has mercy and truth by God in heaven and man on earth at the same time (see Delitszch). The LXX., "after favour," instead of the text, reads, "and provide good things in the sight of the Lord and men," quoted by St. Paul (2 Corinthians 8:21).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then you will find
וּמְצָא־ (ū·mə·ṣā-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

favor
חֵ֖ן (ḥên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2580: Graciousness, subjective, objective

and high regard
וְשֵֽׂכֶל־ (wə·śê·ḵel-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7922: Intelligence, success

in the sight
בְּעֵינֵ֖י (bə·‘ê·nê)
Preposition-b | Noun - cdc
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

of God
אֱלֹהִ֣ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

and man.
וְאָדָֽם׃ (wə·’ā·ḏām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being


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