the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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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 and understanding. Do not forget or turn away from the words of my mouth.
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.
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
And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth to me from the earth.
Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.
And perceiving also, that Laban’s countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day.
And said to them: I see your father’s countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.
Moses therefore being very angry, said to the Lord: Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them.
Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
(19-4) May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: and may thy whole burnt offering be made fat.
Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good?
And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming.
By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts. And by it he being dead yet speaketh.
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, âThe beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.â 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 (âwhen thou runnestâ) 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, âThey eat wickedness as bread, and drink violence as wine.â 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 manâs life. Compare the marginal reference.
Proverbs 4:19
Compare our Lordâs 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.
