Proverbs 24:3
In wisdom, is a house builded, and, in understanding, is it established;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2For, violence, their heart muttereth, and, mischief, their lips do speak.
4And, in knowledge, chambers are filled, with all acquisitions, costly and fair.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26that thy name may be age-abidingly magnified, saying, Yahweh of hosts, is God over Israel, and so, the house of thy servant David, be established before thee.
Proverbs 14:1Every, wise woman, buildeth up her house, but, a foolish one, with her own hands, would break it down.
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are, God’s, fellow-workmen: ye are, God’s, farm, 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 →