Proverbs 8:33
Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
In Context
32Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:2To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
Proverbs 1:8My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
Proverbs 4:1Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:
Isaiah 55:1Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.
Romans 10:16But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:33-36
Wisdom's Exhortation. 32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord . 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. We have here the application of Wisdom's discourse; the design and tendency of it is to… Read the whole commentary →