Proverbs 3:2
New International Version
for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.

New Living Translation
If you do this, you will live many years, and your life will be satisfying.

English Standard Version
for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

Berean Standard Bible
for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.

King James Bible
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

New King James Version
For length of days and long life And peace they will add to you.

New American Standard Bible
For length of days and years of life And peace they will add to you.

NASB 1995
For length of days and years of life And peace they will add to you.

NASB 1977
For length of days and years of life, And peace they will add to you.

Legacy Standard Bible
For length of days and years of life And peace they will add to you.

Amplified Bible
For length of days and years of life [worth living] And tranquility and prosperity [the wholeness of life’s blessings] they will add to you.

Christian Standard Bible
for they will bring you many days, a full life, and well-being.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for they will bring you many days, a full life, and well-being.

American Standard Version
For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because the length of days and the years of life they will add to you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
for length of existence, and years of life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

Contemporary English Version
They will help you live a long and prosperous life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life and peace.

English Revised Version
For length of days, and years of life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
because they will bring you long life, good years, and peace.

Good News Translation
My teaching will give you a long and prosperous life.

International Standard Version
For they will add length to your days, years to your life, and abundant peace to you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee.

Literal Standard Version
For [the] length of [your] days and years, | Life and peace they add to you.

Majority Standard Bible
for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.

New American Bible
For many days, and years of life, and peace, will they bring you.

NET Bible
for they will provide a long and full life, and they will add well-being to you.

New Revised Standard Version
for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare they will give you.

New Heart English Bible
for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

Webster's Bible Translation
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

World English Bible
for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

Young's Literal Translation
For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Trust in the LORD
1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; 2for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life. 3Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:21
so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

1 Kings 3:14
So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days."

Psalm 91:16
With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation."

Psalm 119:165
Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.

Proverbs 3:16
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

Proverbs 4:10
Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.

Proverbs 9:11
For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.


Treasury of Scripture

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you.

length

Proverbs 3:16
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.

Proverbs 4:10
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

Proverbs 9:11
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

long life

Psalm 21:4
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.

and peace

Proverbs 3:17
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Psalm 119:165
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Isaiah 32:17
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

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Proverbs 3
1. various exhortations
13. The gain of wisdom
27. Exhortation to goodness
33. the different state of the wicked and upright














III.

(d) Fourth Discourse:--Exhortation to Various Virtues (Pro iii 1-18).

(2) Long life.--That is, a life worth living, fit to be called "life"; whereas" length of days" only implies extension of life, the reward promised for obedience to parents.

Verse 2. - Length of days (orek yamim); Vulgate, longitudo dierum. The expression is literally "extension of days," and signifies the prolongation of life, its duration to the appointed limit - a meaning which is brought out in the LXX. μῆκος βίου, "length of days," the Greek word βίος being used, not of existence, but of the time and course of life. It occurs again in ver. 16, and also in Job 12:12 and Psalm 21:4. "Length of days" is represented as a blessing in the Old Testament, depending, however, as in the present instance, on the fulfilment of certain conditions. Thus in the fifth commandment it is appended to the honouring of parents (Exodus 20:12), and it was promised to Solomon, at Gibeon, on the condition that he walked in the way, statutes, and commandments of God (1 Kings 3:14). The promise of prolongation of life is not to be pressed historically as applying to every individual case, but is to be taken as indicating the tendency of keeping the Divine precepts, which, as a rule, ensure preservation of health, and hence "length of days." Long life (vush'noth khayyim); literally, years of life; Targum Jonathan, Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic, anni vitae; LXX., ἔτη ζωῆς. The Authorized Version scarcely serves to bring out the sense of the original, as there is practically no difference in meaning between "length of days" and "long life? The idea conveyed in the expression, "years of life," is that of material prosperity. The thought of an extended life is carried on from the preceding expression, but it is amplified and described. The years of life will be many, but they will be years of life in its truest sense, as one of true happiness and enjoyment, free from distracting cares, sickness, and other drawbacks. The Hebrew plural, khayyim, "lives," is equivalent to the Greek expression, βίος βιωτός, "a life worth while living" (cf. Plat., 'Apol.,' 38, A). To the Israelitish mind, the happiness of life consisted in "dwelling in the land" (Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 5:30, etc.), and "abiding in the house of the Lord" (Psalm 15:1; Psalm 23:6; Psalm 27:3) (Zockler). The conjecture that the plural, khayyim, signifies the present and the future life, is unfounded. The scope of the promise before us is confined to the present stage of existence, and it is negatived also by the similar use of the plural in Proverbs 16:5, "In the light of the king's countenance is life (khayyim)," where khayyim cannot possibly refer to the future life. Khayyim stands for life in its fulness. "Godliness" has indeed, as St. Paul wrote to Timothy, "promise of the life that now is, aud of that which is to come" (1 Timothy 4:8). Peace (shalom). The verb shalam, from which the substantive shalom is derived, signifies "to be whole, sound, safe," and hence "peace" means internal and external contentment, and tran-quillity of mind arising from the sense of safety. In ver. 17 the ways of Wisdom are designated peace. While, on the one hand, peace is represented by the psalmist as the possession of those who love God's Law (Psalm 119:165), on the other, it is denied the wicked (Isaiah 48:22; Isaiah 57:21). Shall they add to thee; i.e. shall the precepts and commands bring (Zockler) or heap upon (Muffet) thee.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
for
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

they will add
יוֹסִ֥יפוּ (yō·w·sî·p̄ū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3254: To add, augment

length
אֹ֣רֶךְ (’ō·reḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 753: Length

to your
לָֽךְ׃ (lāḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

days,
יָ֭מִים (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day

years
וּשְׁנ֣וֹת (ū·šə·nō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 8141: A year

and peace
וְ֝שָׁל֗וֹם (wə·šā·lō·wm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7965: Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace

to your life.
חַיִּ֑ים (ḥay·yîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life


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