Psalms 90:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

To number our days aright let `us' know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

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  • Ps 39:4 : 4 `Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it `is',' I know how frail I `am'.
  • Deut 32:29 : 29 If they were wise -- They deal wisely `with' this; They attend to their latter end:
  • John 9:4 : 4 it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --
  • Eph 5:16-17 : 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil; 17 because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what `is' the will of the Lord,
  • Prov 4:7 : 7 The first thing `is' wisdom -- get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.
  • Prov 2:2-6 : 2 To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, 3 For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, 4 If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, 5 Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. 6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.
  • Prov 3:13-18 : 13 O the happiness of a man `who' hath found wisdom, And of a man `who' bringeth forth understanding. 14 For better `is' her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold -- her increase. 15 Precious she `is' above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her. 16 Length of days `is' in her right hand, In her left `are' wealth and honour. 17 Her ways `are' ways of pleasantness, And all her paths `are' peace. 18 A tree of life she `is' to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her `is' happy.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And He saith to man: -- `Lo, fear of the Lord, that `is' wisdom, And to turn from evil `is' understanding.'
  • Prov 8:32-36 : 32 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not. 34 O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance. 35 For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah. 36 And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!
  • Prov 18:1-2 : 1 For `an object of' desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth. 2 A fool delighteth not in understanding, But -- in uncovering his heart.
  • Prov 22:17 : 17 Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge,
  • Prov 23:12 : 12 Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 To get wisdom -- how much better than gold, And to get understanding to be chosen than silver!
  • Prov 7:1-4 : 1 My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee. 2 Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye. 3 Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart. 4 Say to wisdom, `My sister Thou `art'.' And cry to understanding, `Kinswoman!'
  • Prov 4:5 : 5 Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.
  • Luke 12:35-40 : 35 `Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning, 36 and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him. 37 `Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them; 38 and if he may come in the second watch, and in the third watch he may come, and may find `it' so, happy are those servants. 39 `And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through; 40 and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

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    7For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

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    13Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.

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    4`Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it `is',' I know how frail I `am'.

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    12With the very aged `is' wisdom, And `with' length of days understanding.

  • Job 8:9-10
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    9(For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)

    10Do they not shew thee -- speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

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    21Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.

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    1Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.'

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    12Who `is' the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?

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    33`He.' Show me, O Jehovah, the way of Thy statutes, And I keep it -- `to' the end.

  • Prov 9:10-11
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    10The commencement of wisdom `is' the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones `is' understanding.

    11For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.

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    40so that they fear Thee all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.

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    7I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

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    5As the days of man `are' Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?

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    3Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

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    11My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!

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    29If they were wise -- They deal wisely `with' this; They attend to their latter end:

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    12Blessed `art' Thou, O Jehovah, teach me Thy statutes.

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    12Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.

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    19Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,

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    27Lo, this -- we searched it out -- it `is' right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!

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    37Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

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    19Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

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    2To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,

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    4And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.

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    24I say, `My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations `are' Thine years.

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    10Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

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    2For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

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    17Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?

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    9What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?