Proverbs 4:7 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

KJV

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ASV

Wisdomisthe principal thing; therefore get wisdom; Yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

WEB

Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.

YLT

The first thing is wisdom--get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.

DBT

The beginning of wisdom [is], Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.

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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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Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Psalms 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 7:12
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Ecclesiastes 9:16–18
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

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Pray for it, take pains for it, give diligence in the use of all appointed means to attain it. Wait at wisdom's gate, Prov. viii. Get dominion over thy corruptions, which are thy follies: get possession of wise principles and the habits of wisdom.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(1.) By way of precept and exhortation. David, in teaching his son, though he was a child of great capacity and quick apprehension, yet to show that he was in good earnest, and to affect his child the more with what he said, expressed himself with great warmth and importunity, and inculcated the same thing again and again.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It is the whole of man, Eccl. xii. It is that which recommends us to God, which beautifies the soul, which enables us to answer the end of our creation, to live to some good purpose in the world, and to get to heaven at last; and therefore it is the principal thing. [2.] It has reason and equity on its side (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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