Proverbs 3:18 {19}
Good News Translation
Those who become wise are happy; wisdom will give them life.

New Revised Standard Version
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.

Contemporary English Version
Wisdom is a life-giving tree, the source of happiness for all who hold on to her.

New American Bible
She is a tree of life to those who grasp her, and those who hold her fast are happy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth, hath established the heavens by prudence.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth, hath established the heavens by prudence.

Proverbs 11:30 If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.

Proverbs 13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.

Genesis 2:9 And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 3:22 And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

Revelation 22:2 In the midst of the street thereof, and on both sides of the river, was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruits every month: the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations.

Context
The Blessings of Wisdom
17She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed. 18The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth, hath established the heavens by prudence.19By his wisdom the depths have broken out, and the clouds grow thick with dew.…
Cross References
Revelation 2:7
He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of my God.

Genesis 2:9
And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Proverbs 4:13
Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.

Proverbs 8:34
He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.

Proverbs 11:30
If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.

Proverbs 13:12
Hope that is deferred afflicteth the soul: desire when it cometh, is a tree of life.

Proverbs 15:4
A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.

Ecclesiastes 7:12
For as wisdom is a defence, so money is a defence: but learning and wisdom excel in this, that they give life to him that possesseth them.

Proverbs 3:17
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