the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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THE MESSAGE
Proverbs 1:5
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let a wise person listen and increase learning,and let a discerning person obtain guidance—
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; That the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,
Wise people can also listen and learn; even they can find good advice in these words.
(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)
The wise will hear and increase their learning, And the person of understanding will acquire wise counsel and the skill [to steer his course wisely and lead others to the truth],
A wise person will hear and increase in learning, And a person of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; That the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,
Let the wise man hear and increase in learning,And a man of understanding will acquire guidance,
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
If you are already wise, you will become even wiser. And if you are smart, you will learn to understand
Someone who is already wise will hear and learn still more; someone who already understands will gain the ability to counsel well;
He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
Even the wise could become wiser by listening to these proverbs. They will gain understanding and learn to solve difficult problems.
A wise man will listen and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to leadership;
These proverbs can even add to the knowledge of the wise and give guidance to the educated,
may the wise hear and increase learning, and the one who understands gain direction,
The wise hears and increases learning, and the understanding ones gets wise counsel,
By hearinge, the wyse ma shal come by more wysdome: and by experience,
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and the man of understanding may attain unto wise counsels;
A wise man wil heare, and wil increase learning: and a man of vnderstanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels:
The wise man wyll geue eare, and wyll come by more wisdome, and he that is endued with vnderstanding shal attayne vnto [wise] counsayles.
For by the hearing of these a wise man will be wiser, and man of understanding will gain direction;
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; and that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
A wise man heringe schal be wisere; and a man vndurstondinge schal holde gouernails.
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsels:
A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:
A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,
Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser. Let those with understanding receive guidance
A wise man will hear and grow in learning. A man of understanding will become able
let the wise also hear and gain in learning, and the discerning acquire skill,
A wise man, will hear, and will increase learning, and a, discreet man, wise counsels, will acquire,
A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.
the wise man also may hear and increase in learning, and the man of understanding acquire skill,
(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
A wise man will hear and increase in learning, And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
wise: Proverbs 9:9, Proverbs 12:1, Job 34:10, Job 34:16, Job 34:34, Psalms 119:98-100, 1 Corinthians 10:15
a man: 1 Samuel 25:32, 1 Samuel 25:33, 2 Chronicles 25:16
Reciprocal: Exodus 18:24 - General 1 Kings 10:1 - prove him 1 Kings 10:3 - told her Ezra 10:5 - arose Job 34:2 - General Proverbs 10:8 - wise Proverbs 10:14 - lay Proverbs 12:15 - but Proverbs 15:14 - heart Proverbs 18:15 - General Proverbs 21:11 - when the wise Jeremiah 17:23 - nor Daniel 12:10 - but the wise Hosea 14:9 - wise Matthew 13:23 - good Luke 11:36 - the whole Acts 10:33 - are we Acts 17:11 - more Acts 18:26 - expounded 1 Corinthians 14:31 - all may learn 1 John 2:21 - because ye know not
Cross-References
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.
For as long as Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night will never stop."
class="poetry"> O my soul, bless God ! God , my God, how great you are! beautifully, gloriously robed, Dressed up in sunshine, and all heaven stretched out for your tent. You built your palace on the ocean deeps, made a chariot out of clouds and took off on wind-wings. You commandeered winds as messengers, appointed fire and flame as ambassadors. You set earth on a firm foundation so that nothing can shake it, ever. You blanketed earth with ocean, covered the mountains with deep waters; Then you roared and the water ran away— your thunder crash put it to flight. Mountains pushed up, valleys spread out in the places you assigned them. You set boundaries between earth and sea; never again will earth be flooded. You started the springs and rivers, sent them flowing among the hills. All the wild animals now drink their fill, wild donkeys quench their thirst. Along the riverbanks the birds build nests, ravens make their voices heard. You water the mountains from your heavenly cisterns; earth is supplied with plenty of water. You make grass grow for the livestock, hay for the animals that plow the ground. Oh yes, God brings grain from the land, wine to make people happy, Their faces glowing with health, a people well-fed and hearty. God 's trees are well-watered— the Lebanon cedars he planted. Birds build their nests in those trees; look—the stork at home in the treetop. Mountain goats climb about the cliffs; badgers burrow among the rocks. The moon keeps track of the seasons, the sun is in charge of each day. When it's dark and night takes over, all the forest creatures come out. The young lions roar for their prey, clamoring to God for their supper. When the sun comes up, they vanish, lazily stretched out in their dens. Meanwhile, men and women go out to work, busy at their jobs until evening. What a wildly wonderful world, God ! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom. The glory of God —let it last forever! Let God enjoy his creation! He takes one look at earth and triggers an earthquake, points a finger at the mountains, and volcanoes erupt. Oh, let me sing to God all my life long, sing hymns to my God as long as I live! Oh, let my song please him; I'm so pleased to be singing to God . But clear the ground of sinners— no more godless men and women! O my soul, bless God !
But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile? Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working. Or, to put it another way, you are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you'll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won't get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn't, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won't be torn out; you'll survive—but just barely. You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple. Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times. Be God's fool—that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls. I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift—Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A wise [man] will hear,.... With great attention, and hearken to the proverbs and wise sayings herein delivered; for here are many things entertaining to men of years and wisdom, as well as instructive to young men and simple ones;
and will increase learning; or "add" k to his stock of learning; or, as the Targum,
"will add knowledge;''
see 2 Peter 1:5; or, "will be wiser", as the Vulgate Latin version. This is said to show the excellency of this book, and the extensive usefulness of it; indeed wise men will get knowledge where fools cannot, and increase learning where others can get none: there are few books but a wise man will get something out of; and especially such a book as this, and as the Scriptures are;
and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels; a man of a spiritual understanding arrives to the knowledge of the wise counsels of God; the doctrines of the Gospel, which are the "whole counsel" of God; are recondite wisdom, the hidden wisdom of God, which no wisdom of man is comparable to. It is the wisest scheme that was ever formed, and which the wit of man could never have devised, even salvation by Jesus Christ; and which was laid in God's "counsels of old", which are "faithfulness" and "truth"; the knowledge of which is attained unto by one that is spiritually wise. Moreover, a man that thoroughly understands the things contained in this book is fit to be a counsellor of others in things human and divine; in things moral, civil, and spiritual: he is fit to be in the cabinet council of princes, to be a counsellor of kings; yea, to have the reins of government in his hands. "He shall possess government"; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions: or, "he shall possess the helm" l; sit as a pilot there, as the word may signify, and steer the ship aright in which he is; whether it be his family, or the church of God, or a city or corporation, or a kingdom: this book, rightly understood by him, will furnish him with rules to do all things well and wisely.
k ××סף "addet", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens. l ת××××ת ××§× × "gubernacula possidebit", V. L. "metaphora a nauclero desumpta", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
But it is not for the young only that he writes. The âman of understandingâ may gain âwise counsels,â literally, the power to âsteerâ his course rightly on the dangerous seas of life. This âsteersmanship,â it may be noted, is a word almost unique to Proverbs (compare âcounselâ in Proverbs 11:14; Proverbs 12:5; Proverbs 24:6).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 1:5. A wise man will hear — I shall not only give such instructions as may be suitable to the youthful and inexperienced, but also to those who have much knowledge and understanding. So said St. Paul: We speak wisdom among them that are perfect. This and the following verse are connected in the old MS. and in Coverdale: "By hearyinge the wyse man shall come by more wysdome; and by experience he shall be more apte to understonde a parable and the interpretation thereof; the wordes of the wyse and the darke speaches of the same."
