the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Proverbs 4:5
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Get wisdom, get understanding;don’t forget or turn away from the words from my mouth.
Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Get wisdom and understanding. Don't forget or ignore my words.
Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.
"Get [skillful and godly] wisdom! Acquire understanding [actively seek spiritual discernment, mature comprehension, and logical interpretation]! Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
Acquire wisdom! Acquire understanding! Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.
Acquire wisdom! Acquire understanding!Do not forget and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth.
Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.
Be wise and learn good sense; remember my teachings and do what I say.
gain wisdom, gain insight; don't forget or turn from the words I am saying.
Get wisdom, get intelligence: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Try to get wisdom and understanding. Don't forget my teaching or ignore what I say.
Get wisdom, get understanding; and turn not aside from the words of my mouth.
Get wisdom and insight! Do not forget or ignore what I say.
Get wisdom and insight; do not forget and do not turn from the sayings of my mouth.
Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forsake and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Get the wy?dome, get the vnderstondinge, forget not ye wordes of my mouth, & shreke not from them.
Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;
Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.
Get wisdom, get understanding; forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;
Get wisedome, get vnderstanding: forget it not, neither decline from the wordes of my mouth.
Get thee wysdome, and get thee vnderstanding: forget not the wordes of my mouth, and shrinke not from them.
and do not neglect the speech of my mouth.
Get wisdom, get understanding; forget it not, neither decline from the words of my mouth:
Welde thou wisdom, welde thou prudence; foryete thou not, nethir bowe thou awey fro the wordis of my mouth.
Get wisdom, get understanding; Don't forget, neither decline from the words of my mouth;
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
Get wisdom; develop good judgment. Don't forget my words or turn away from them.
Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding, Do not forget, neither decline thou from the sayings of my mouth.
Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.
do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Get wisdom; get insight.
Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.
Acquire wisdom! Acquire understanding! Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Get wisdom: Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 1:23, Proverbs 2:2-4, Proverbs 3:13-18, Proverbs 8:5, Proverbs 17:16, Proverbs 18:1, Proverbs 19:8, Proverbs 23:23, James 1:5
neither: 2 Chronicles 34:2, Job 23:11, Psalms 44:18, Psalms 119:51, Psalms 119:157
Reciprocal: Psalms 90:12 - that Proverbs 8:11 - wisdom Proverbs 11:9 - through Proverbs 18:15 - General Ecclesiastes 2:13 - I saw Luke 8:12 - then 2 Thessalonians 2:10 - they received Hebrews 12:5 - ye have forgotten
Cross-References
The Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Jacob saw that Laban did not show him as much favor as he did before.
He said to them, "I see that your father does not show me as much favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.
Moses became very angry. He said to the Lord, "Do not respect their gift! I have not taken one donkey from them. And I have not hurt one of them."
To be bitter kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the child-like.
May He remember all your gifts of grain given on the altar in worship. And may He be pleased with your burnt gifts.
Do I not have the right to do what I want to do with my own money? Does your eye make you want more because I am good?'
The Jews were filled with jealousy when they saw so many people. They spoke against the things Paul said by saying he was wrong. They also spoke against God.
Because Abel had faith, he gave a better gift in worship to God than Cain. His gift pleased God. Abel was right with God. Abel died, but by faith he is still speaking to us.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Get wisdom, get understanding,.... Not only moral and political wisdom and understanding, but that which is spiritual and evangelical; Christ, and the knowledge of him; he being the only happy man that has an interest in him, and is possessed of him by faith, which is the meaning of getting him; :-; by which it appears, that what Solomon had before delivered, and afterwards repeats and urges, was the same his father David, that wise, great, and good man, taught him; and which he mentions, the more to recommend the getting of wisdom and understanding to others;
forget [it] not; when gotten, keep it in remembrance; be continually meditating on Wisdom, or Christ, his glories and excellencies; the fulness of grace and truth in him; the blessings of goodness which come by him; the great use and profit of having and enjoying him;
neither decline from the words of my mouth; the above instructions, and all others he gave unto him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 24:1-10; Psalms 37:0.
Proverbs 4:7
Or, “The beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.” To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain.
Proverbs 4:12
The ever-recurring parable of the journey of life. In the way of wisdom the path is clear and open, obstacles disappear; in the quickest activity (“when thou runnest”) there is no risk of falling.
Proverbs 4:13
She is thy life - Another parallel between personified Wisdom in this book and the Incarnate Wisdom in John 1:4.
Proverbs 4:16
A fearful stage of debasement. Sin is the condition without which there can be no repose.
Proverbs 4:17
i. e., Bread and wine gained by unjust deeds. Compare Amos 2:8. A less probable interpretation is, “They eat wickedness as bread, and drink violence as wine.” Compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7.
Proverbs 4:18
Shining ... shineth - The two Hebrew words are different; the first having the sense of bright or clear. The beauty of a cloudless sunshine growing on, shining as it goes, to the full and perfect day, is chosen as the fittest figure of the ever increasing brightness of the good man’s life. Compare the marginal reference.
Proverbs 4:19
Compare our Lord’s teaching John 11:10; John 12:35.
Proverbs 4:20
The teacher speaks again in his own person.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 4:5. Get wisdom — True religion is essential to thy happiness; never forget its teachings, nor go aside from the path it prescribes.
