Proverbs 24:3
Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2For their heart meditates oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.
4and by knowledge the chambers are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26And let thy name be magnified forever, saying, LORD of hosts is God over Israel, and the house of thy servant David shall be established before thee.
Proverbs 14:1Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish woman plucks it down with her own hands.
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are co-workmen of God. Ye are a tillage of God, an edifice of God.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:2-3
The Excellence of Wisdom. 1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. Here, 1. The caution given is much the same with that which we had before ( ch. xxiii. 17 ), not to envy sinners, not to think them happy, nor to wish ourselves in their condition, though they prosper ever so much in this world, and are ever so merry and ever so secure. "Let not such a thought ever come into thy mind, O that I could shake off the… Read the whole commentary →