Proverbs 24:3
A house is built by wisdom, || And it establishes itself by understanding.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2For their heart meditates [on] destruction, || And their lips speak perverseness.
4And the inner parts are filled by knowledge, || [With] all precious and pleasant wealth.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26And Your Name is great for all time, saying, YHWH of Hosts [is] God over Israel, and the house of Your servant David is established before You,
Proverbs 14:1Every wise woman has built her house, || And the foolish breaks it down with her hands.
1 Corinthians 3:9for we are fellow-workmen of God; you are God’s tillage, 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 →