Proverbs 3:2
For [the] length of [your] days and years, || Life and peace they add to you.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
In Context
1My son! Do not forget my law, || And let your heart keep my commands,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:21so that your days are multiplied, and the days of your sons, on the ground which YHWH has sworn to your fathers to give to them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
Psalms 21:4He has asked for life from You, || You have given length of days to him, || For all time and forever.
Psalms 91:16I satisfy him with [the] length of [his] days, || And I cause him to look on My salvation!
Psalms 128:6And see the sons of your sons! Peace on Israel!
Proverbs 4:4And he directs me, and he says to me: “Let your heart retain my words, || Keep my commands, and live.
Proverbs 9:11For by me your days multiply, || And years of life are added to you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 3:2-7
Communion Conferred by Wisdom. 1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. We are… Read the whole commentary →