Proverbs 24:3
By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be strengthened.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits.
4By instruction the storerooms shall be filled with all precious and most beautiful wealth.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26That thy name may be magnified for ever, and it may be said: The Lord of hosts is God over Israel. And the house of thy servant David shall be established before the Lord.
Proverbs 14:1A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are 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 →