Proverbs 8:32
Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
In Context
31Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.
33Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
Cross References
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence.
Psalms 128:1Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.
Proverbs 5:7Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Luke 11:28But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:23-32
Wisdom Eternal and Divine. 22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when… Read the whole commentary →