Proverbs 3:4 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 3:4

So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

KJV

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ASV

So shalt thou find favor and good understanding In the sight of God and man.

WEB

Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.

YLT

And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.

DBT

and thou shalt find favour and good understanding in the sight ofGod and man.

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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Cross-references

16 verses on the floor

Luke 2:52
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
1 Samuel 2:26
And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord, and also with men.
Romans 14:18
For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
Psalms 111:10
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Genesis 39:2–4
And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

He shall have good success (so some translate it), the common effect of good understanding. We must have a continual regard to God's providence, must own and depend upon it in all our affairs, both by faith and prayer.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

favour--grace, amiability (Pr 22:11; Ps 45:2); united with this, a good understanding--(Compare Margin), a discrimination, which secures success. in the sight . . . man--such as God and man approve.

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

Understanding - Whereby to know thy duty, and to discern between good and evil. Of God - Grace or favour with God, and that understanding which is good in God's sight.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H792216× in canon H258069× in canon

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PRO 3:4LUK 2:52 LUK 2:40
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 3:4LUK 2:52 LUK 1:80
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 3:4LUK 2:52 PRO 3:3-4
PRO 3:4LUK 2:52 1SA 2:26
PRO 3:4PSA 111:10 PRO 1:7
PRO 3:4LUK 2:52 ROM 14:18
PRO 3:4PSA 111:10 PRO 9:10
PRO 3:41SA 2:26 LUK 2:52

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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