Proverbs 24:3
Through wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding is it established;
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2For their heart studieth destruction, And their lips speak mischief.
4Yea, by knowledge are the chambers filled With all precious and goodly substance.
Cross References
Proverbs 14:1The wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish teareth it down with her hands.
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God's fellow-laborers; ye are God's field, ye are God's building.
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 →