Proverbs 8:33
+ 8:33 not in Codex Vaticanus, but Alexandrine codex has this text Hear wisdom and be wise, and + 8:33 More lit., do not separate yourselves from it. be not strangers to it.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
In Context
34watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my entrances.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:2to know wisdom and instruction, and to perceive words of understanding;
Proverbs 1:8Hear, my son, the instruction of your father, and reject not the rules of your mother.
Proverbs 4:1Hear, you⌃ children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Isaiah 55:1You⌃ that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money, go and buy; and eat and drink wine and fat without money or price.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:33-36
Wisdom's Exhortation. 32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord . 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. We have here the application of Wisdom's discourse; the design and tendency of it is to… Read the whole commentary →