Proverbs 8:32
Now then, my son, hear me: blessed is the man who shall listen to me, and the mortal who shall keep my ways; + 8:32 Alexandrine text reads: “And blessed are they that keep my ways.”
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
In Context
31For he rejoiced when he had completed the world, and rejoiced among the children of men.
Cross References
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of + 1:1 Gr. pestilent. evil men. 1
Psalms 128:1A Song of Degrees. Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say: 1
Proverbs 5:7Now then, my son, hear me, and make not my words of none effect.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:23-32
Wisdom Eternal and Divine. 22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when… Read the whole commentary →