Proverbs 24:3
A house is built by wisdom, and is set up by understanding.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2For their heart meditates falsehoods, and their lips speak mischiefs.
4By discretion the chambers are filled with all precious and excellent wealth.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26Let your name be magnified for ever. + 7:26 Heb. and Alex. add, 'and let the house of your servant David be established before you.'
Proverbs 14:1Wise women build houses: but a foolish one digs hers down with her hands.
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 →