Proverbs 24:3
Through wisdom is an house built; and by understanding it is established:
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
4And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26And let your name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of your servant David be established before you.
Proverbs 14:1Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are labourers together with God: all of you are God's farming, all of you are 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 →