Proverbs 8:33
Hear instruction, and be wise! Yea, reject it not!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
In Context
32“Now, therefore, ye children, hearken to me! For happy are they who keep my ways!
Cross References
Proverbs 1:2That one may learn wisdom and instruction, And receive words of understanding;
Proverbs 1:8Hear, O my son! the instruction of thy father, And neglect not the teaching of thy mother!
Proverbs 4:1Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, And attend, that ye may learn understanding!
Isaiah 55:1Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters! Even ye that have no money, come ye, buy and eat! Yea, come, buy wine and milk, Without money and without price.
Romans 10:16But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, “Lord, who hath believed what he hath heard from us?”
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 →