Proverbs 22:21
to make you know what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?
In context
18 for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips. 19 That your trust may be in the Lord, I have made them known to you today, even to you. 20 Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge, 21 to make you know what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?
22 Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, 23 for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 22:21 in the KJV
That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; That thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
- NIV New International Version
— Proverbs 22:21 in the NIV
teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth, so that you bring back truthful reports to those you serve?