Focused Passage

Proverbs 20:18

The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures

The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

18Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.

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Verse 18

Original words

Setתִכּ֑וֹןH3559Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - second person masculine singularplansמַ֭חֲשָׁבוֹתH4284Noun - feminine pluralby consultationבְּעֵצָ֣הH6098Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singularand wageעֲשֵׂ֣הH6213Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singularwarמִלְחָמָֽה׃H4421Noun - feminine singularunder sound guidanceוּ֝בְתַחְבֻּל֗וֹתH8458Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural

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