Proverbs 8:34
I am pleased with those who listen to me, those who are outside my house every day, waiting for me to come out.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
In Context
33Listen carefully to what I teach you and become wise. Do not reject my teaching!
35Those who find me will have a long life, and Yahweh will be pleased with them.
Cross References
1 Kings 10:8Your wives are very fortunate! Your officials who are constantly standing in front of you and listening to the wise things that you say are also fortunate!
Psalms 84:10For me, spending one day in your temple is better than spending 1,000 days somewhere else; standing at the entrance to your temple, ready to go inside, is better than living in the tents/homes where wicked people live.
Proverbs 1:21Wisdom calls out in noisy places, and at the entrances to cities.
Proverbs 3:13Yahweh is pleased with those who become wise and have good understanding.
Matthew 7:24“So then, anyone who hears what I say and does what I command, will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
Luke 10:39Her younger sister, whose name was Mary, sat near Jesus. She was listening to what he was teaching.
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 →