Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:
Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:
Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:
Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
Discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Discretion shall preserve thee - מזמה mezimmah. See on Proverbs 1:4 (note). Here the word is taken in a good sense, a good device. The man invents purposes of good; and all his schemes, plans, and devices, have for their object God's glory and the good of man: he deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things he shall stand. Coverdale translates, "Then shall Counsel preserve thee." A very good translation, much better than the present.