Proverbs 24:3
Through wisdom is a house built, and by understanding it is established;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2for their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
4and by knowledge are the chambers filled with all precious and pleasant substance.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, Jehovah of hosts is God over Israel; and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.
Proverbs 14:1The wisdom of women buildeth their house; but folly plucketh it down with her hands.
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
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 →