Proverbs 24:3
By wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established;
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.
4through knowledge its rooms are filled with every precious and beautiful treasure.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.’ And the house of Your servant David will be established before You.
Proverbs 14:1Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, 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 →