in order to safeguard ¹  discretion, ²  and that your lips may guard knowledge.

biblegateway Pro 5:2

That you may observe discretion And your lips may reserve knowledge.

so that you may maintain discretion and your lips safeguard knowledge.

so that you may act with foresight and speak with insight.

biblegateway Pro 5:2

that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.

that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.

bibleoremus Pro 5:2

so that you may hold on to prudence, and your lips may guard knowledge.

so that you may preserve discretion and your lips safeguard knowledge.

biblegateway Pro 5:2

That you may preserve discretion, And your lips may keep knowledge.

That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.

biblegateway Pro 5:2

in order to safeguard ¹  discretion, ²  and that your lips may guard knowledge.

¹ tn Heb “keep, protect, guard.”

² sn This “discretion” is the same word in 1:4; it is wise, prudential consideration, careful planning, or the ability to devise plans with a view to the best way to carry them out. If that ability is retained then temptations to digress will not interfere.