Proverbs 2:11 {12}
Good News Translation
Your insight and understanding will protect you

New Revised Standard Version
prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you.

Contemporary English Version
Sound judgment and good sense will watch over you.

New American Bible
Discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you;

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:

Proverbs 4:6 The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.

Proverbs 6:22-24 Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: . . .

Psalm 25:21 The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.

Psalm 119:9-11 By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words. . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:15-18 Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man. . . .

Ecclesiastes 10:10 If the iron be blunt, and be not as before, but be made blunt, with much labour it shall be sharpened: and after industry shall follow wisdom.

Ephesians 5:15 See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise,

Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
10Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee, 11That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:12Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:…
Cross References
Proverbs 1:4
A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.

Proverbs 4:6
The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.

Proverbs 6:22
Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Proverbs 2:10
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