Proverbs 24:3
By wisdom shall a house be built, and by prudence shall it be strengthened.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2For their mind meditates on robberies, and their lips speak deceptions.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26so that your name may be magnified even forever, and so that it may be said: ‘The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel.’ And the house of your servant David will be established in the sight of the Lord.
Proverbs 14:1A wise woman builds up her household. But a foolish one will pull down with her own hands what has been built up.
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God’s assistants. You are God’s cultivation; you are God’s construction.
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 →