18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.


In Context

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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 That your trust may be in Yahweh, I teach you today, even you.

20 Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,

Proverbs 22:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:18For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

22:18for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:18Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:18For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:18For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:18For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:18For it is a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:18For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall with be fitted in your lips.