Proverbs Chapter 22 verse 18 Holy Bible
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.
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For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
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For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.
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For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
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For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If all of them are ready on your lips.
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For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - This verse gives the reason for the previous exhortation. It is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; in thy mind and memory (comp. Proverbs 18:8; Proverbs 20:27). Thus Psalm 147:1, "It is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is comely." They shall withal be fitted in thy lips. This rendering hardly suits the hortatory nature of the introduction. It is better to take the clause in the optative, as Delitzsch, Ewald, Nowack, and ethers: "Let them abide altogether upon thy lips;" i.e. be not ashamed to profess them openly, let them regulate thy words, teach thee wisdom and discretion. Septuagint, "And if thou admit them to thy heart, they shall likewise gladden thee on thy lips."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) They shall withal be fitted in thy lips.--Rather, if they be established (dwell constantly) upon thy lips. They are to be as a watch, and "keep the door of his lips" against sin (Psalm 141:3), to teach him what to say in difficulty (Mark 13:11), how to speak without fear even before kings (Psalm 119:46); by them the "praises of God" will ever be in his mouth (Psalm 149:6).
