Proverbs 24:3
A house is built by wisdom; its foundation is made secure through understanding.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2for they think up cruel plans and discuss how to cause trouble.
4Its rooms are filled by knowledge with all kinds of valuable and beautiful objects.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26and may your true nature be honored forever, with people declaring, ‘The Lord Almighty is Israel's God!’ May the house of your servant David continue to be there in your presence.
Proverbs 14:1Every wise woman builds her house, but the stupid woman tears it down with her own hands.
1 Corinthians 3:9We are workers together with God—and you are God's field, his 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 →