For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
Parallel translations
- WEB For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
- KJV When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy 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 became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
- Job 23:12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
- Prov 18:1–2He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.
- Ps 19:10They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
- Prov 24:13–14Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
- Ps 104:34May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
- Ps 119:162I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.
- Ps 119:111Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
- Prov 14:33Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; even among fools she is known.
- Ps 119:103How sweet are Your words to my taste—sweeter than honey in my mouth!
- Ps 119:97Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
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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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