Proverbs 1:13 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 1:13

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

KJV

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ASV

We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil;

WEB

We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

YLT

Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil,

DBT

we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

About this book

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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11 verses on the floor

Exodus 20:15
Thou shalt not steal.
1 Timothy 6:9–10
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Proverbs 8:21
That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
Job 24:2–3
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Luke 12:15
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

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A faithful and lively representation of wisdom's reasonings with the children of men, and the certain ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to those reasonings,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Abundant rewards of villainy are promised as the fruits of this easy and safe course. The society of the wicked (way or path) is dangerous. Avoid the beginnings of sin (Pr 4:14;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

It is cheap, it is common, yet, in their account, it is precious, and therefore they will hazard their lives, and perhaps their souls, in pursuit of it. It is the ruining mistake of thousands that they over-value the wealth of this world and look on it as precious substance. (2.) The abundance of it which they promise themselves: We shall fill our houses with it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, "open the way." consent . . . not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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