Proverbs 22:18
World English Bible (WEB)
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
In context
16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
17 Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
19 I teach you today, even you, so that your trust may be in the LORD.
20 Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,
Proverbs 22:18 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
- KJV King James Version
- For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For it is a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.