14Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.


In Context

11 Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter.

12 If you say, "But we knew nothing about this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?

13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.

14 Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.

15 Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against a righteous man's house, do not raid his dwelling place;

16 for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity.

Proverbs 24:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:14So [shall] the knowledge of wisdom [be] unto thy soul: when thou hast found [it,] then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:14So also is the doctrine of wisdom to thy soul: which when thou hast found, thou shalt have hope in the end, and thy hope shall not perish.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:14So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If thou hast found it, then shall there be a reward, And thy hope shall not be cut off.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:14so consider wisdom for thy soul; if thou hast found it, there shall be a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:14So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul: if thou hast found it, then shall there be a reward, and thy hope shall not be cut off.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:14So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:14so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:14So is the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul, If thou hast found that there is a posterity And thy hope is not cut off.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:14So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your expectation shall not be cut off.