Proverbs 8:33
Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
In Context
32Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:2To know wisdom, and instruction:
Proverbs 1:8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother :
Proverbs 4:1Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence.
Isaiah 55:1All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price.
Romans 10:16But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias saith: Lord, who hath believed our report?
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 →