For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Parallel translations
- KJV When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
- BSB For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
- NKJV When wisdom enters your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
- NASB For wisdom will enter your heart, And knowledge will be delightful to your soul;
- NLT For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy.
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Quick answer
Wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will become pleasant to your soul. It matters because true wisdom is not merely learned but loved.
Overview
Wisdom penetrates the inner person, becoming a delight rather than a burden. When knowledge of God is pleasant to the soul, it transforms desires and guards the life (vv. 10-11). This inward delight in truth is the work of God's grace renewing the heart.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
- Job 23:12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- Prov 18:1–2An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
- Ps 19:10More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
- Prov 24:13–14My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:
- Ps 104:34Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.
- Ps 119:162I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.
- Ps 119:111I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
- Prov 14:33Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.
- Ps 119:103How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
- Ps 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
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Wisdom personified, with God before creation and the agent of all things, anticipates Christ 'in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom' — the wisdom of God made flesh.
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