Proverbs 8:32
So, you people who are like my sons, listen to me. I am pleased with all those who obey my teachings.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
In Context
31I was delighted with the world that he created; I was happy with the people whom he created, too.
33Listen carefully to what I teach you and become wise. Do not reject my teaching!
Cross References
Psalms 1:1God is pleased with those who do not do what [MET] wicked people advise them to do, and who do not imitate the behavior of [MET] sinful people, and who do not join in with people who ◄ridicule/sneer at► God.
Psalms 128:1◄Happy are/Yahweh is pleased with► those of you who revere him and do what he wants you to do [IDM].
Proverbs 5:7So now, my sons, listen to me. ◄Never turn aside from/always remember► [LIT] what I am about to tell you.
Luke 11:28But he replied, “God is much more pleased with those who hear his message and obey it!”
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 →