Proverbs 24:3
By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
2For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.
4And by knowledge the inner parts are filled, [With] all precious and pleasant wealth.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26And Thy Name is great unto the age, saying, Jehovah of Hosts [is] God over Israel, and the house of Thy servant David is established before Thee,
Proverbs 14:1Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.
1 Corinthians 3:9for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
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 →