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Douay-Rheims Bible

Proverbs 24:32

Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Idleness;   Instruction;   Slothfulness;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Laziness;   Poverty;   Understanding;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idleness and Sloth;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom literature;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Economic Life;   Israel, History of;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prov'erbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proverbs, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Labor;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I saw, and took it to heart;I looked, and received instruction:
Hebrew Names Version
Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
King James Version
Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
English Standard Version
Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction.
New American Standard Bible
When I saw, I reflected upon it; I looked, and received instruction.
New Century Version
I thought about what I had seen; I learned this lesson from what I saw.
Amplified Bible
When I saw, I considered it well; I looked and received instruction.
World English Bible
Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then I behelde, and I considered it well: I looked vpon it, and receiued instruction.
Legacy Standard Bible
And I beheld, I set my heart upon it;I saw, I received discipline.
Berean Standard Bible
I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction:
Contemporary English Version
When I saw this, it taught me a lesson:
Complete Jewish Bible
I looked, and I thought about it; I saw, and I learned this lesson:
Darby Translation
Then I looked, I took it to heart; I saw, I received instruction:
Easy-to-Read Version
I looked at this and thought about it. This is what I learned:
George Lamsa Translation
Then I looked upon it, and considered it well, and I received instruction:
Good News Translation
I looked at this, thought about it, and learned a lesson from it:
Lexham English Bible
Then I myself saw and my heart considered; I looked, and I took hold of instruction:
Literal Translation
And I beheld, I set my heart on it, I looked, I received instruction.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This I sawe, & cosidered it wel: I loked vpo it, & toke it for a warnynge.
American Standard Version
Then I beheld, and considered well; I saw, and received instruction:
Bible in Basic English
Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then I beheld, and considered well; I saw, and received instruction.
King James Version (1611)
Then I saw, and considered it well, I looked vpon it, and receiued instruction.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
This I sawe, and considered it well: I looked vpon it, and toke it for a warning.
English Revised Version
Then I beheld, and considered well: I saw, and received instruction.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne Y hadde seyn this thing, Y settide in myn herte, and bi ensaumple Y lernyde techyng.
Update Bible Version
Then I looked, and considered well; I saw, and received instruction:
Webster's Bible Translation
Then I saw, [and] considered [it] well: I looked upon [it], [and] received instruction.
New English Translation
When I saw this, I gave careful consideration to it; I received instruction from what I saw:
New King James Version
When I saw it, I considered it well; I looked on it and received instruction:
New Living Translation
Then, as I looked and thought about it, I learned this lesson:
New Life Bible
When I saw it, I thought about it. I looked and received teaching.
New Revised Standard
Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So I observed it, for myself, I applied my heart, I looked - I accepted correction:
Revised Standard Version
Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction.
Young's Literal Translation
And I see -- I -- I do set my heart, I have seen -- I have received instruction,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When I saw, I reflected upon it; I looked, and received instruction.

Contextual Overview

30 I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man: 31 And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down. 32 Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction. 33 Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest. 34 And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

considered it: Heb. set my heart, Job 7:17, Psalms 4:4, Luke 2:19, Luke 2:51

I looked: Deuteronomy 13:11, Deuteronomy 21:21, Deuteronomy 32:29, 1 Corinthians 10:6, 1 Corinthians 10:11, Jude 1:5 -7

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:23 - neither Exodus 9:21 - regarded not Proverbs 27:23 - look well Jeremiah 31:21 - set thine Ezekiel 44:5 - mark well 2 Timothy 2:7 - Consider

Cross-References

Genesis 18:4
But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree.
Genesis 19:2
And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your servant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street.
Genesis 24:4
But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.
Genesis 24:14
Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn kindness to my master.
Genesis 43:24
And having brought them into the house, he fetched water, and they washed their feet, and he gave provender to their asses.
Judges 19:21
And he brought him into his house, and gave provender to his asses: and after they had washed their feet, he entertained them with a feast.
1 Samuel 25:41
And she arose, and bowed herself down with her face to the earth, and said: Behold, let thy servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
Luke 7:44
And turning to the woman, he said unto Simon: Dost thou see this woman? I entered into thy house: thou gavest me no water for my feet. But she with tears hath washed my feet; and with her hairs hath wiped them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I saw, [and] considered it well,.... Or, "when I saw, I considered it well"; or "set my heart it" z; when he saw as he passed along the field and the vineyard, he, considered who was the owner and proprietor of them; what a sluggish and foolish man he was, and what a ruinous condition his field and vineyard were in.

I looked upon [it, and] received instruction; looked at it again, and took a thorough view of it, and learned something from it; so great and wise a man as Solomon received instruction from the field and vineyard of the slothful and foolish man; learned to be wiser, and to be more diligent in cultivating his own field, and dressing his own vineyard: so from the view and consideration of the slothfulness and folly of unregenerate man, and of the state and condition of his soul, many lessons of instruction may be learned; as that there is no free will and wisdom in men with respect to that which is good; the ruinous state and condition of men, as being all overspread with sin and corruption, in all the powers and faculties of their souls; and that there is nothing in them agreeable to God, but all the reverse; also the necessity of divine grace to put them into a good state, and make them fruitful; moreover, the distinguishing grace of God, which makes others to differ from them; and likewise it is teaching and instructive to good men to use more diligence themselves in things relating to their spiritual good, and to the glory of God.

z ואחזה אנכי אשית לבי "quum ergo contemplatus essem, adjunxi animum meum", Mercerus; "cum intuerer, apposui cor meum", Gejerus; "cum igitur viderem ego, adponebam cor meum", Michaelis.


 
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