Proverbs 4:7
The first thing [is] wisdom—get wisdom, || And with all your getting get understanding.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
In Context
6Do not forsake her, and she preserves you, || Love her, and she keeps you.
8Exalt her and she lifts you up, || She honors you when you embrace her.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 1:10now, give wisdom and knowledge to me, and I go out before this people, and I come in, for who judges this—Your great people?”
Psalms 119:104I have understanding from Your precepts, || Therefore I have hated every false path!
Proverbs 16:16To get wisdom—how much better than gold, || And to get understanding—to be chosen [more] than silver!
Proverbs 23:23Buy truth, and do not sell, || Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
Ecclesiastes 4:8There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he has not, and there is no end to all his labor! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and [he does not say], “For whom am I laboring and bereaving my soul of good?” This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.
Ecclesiastes 9:16And I said, “Better [is] wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:2-14
Parental Instructions. 1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep… Read the whole commentary →