Proverbs 24:3
Through wisdom a house is built 1 and by understanding it is established. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2because their hearts plot violence 1 and their lips talk about trouble. 1
4By knowledge the rooms are filled 1 with all precious and pleasant riches. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26May your name be forever great, so the people will say, 'Yahweh of hosts is the God of Israel,' while the house of me, David, your servant is established before you.
Proverbs 14:1The wise woman builds her house, 1 but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands. 1
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's garden, 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 →