To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;
For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 17:16Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?
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The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.
‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
“To you, O men, I call out, and my cry is to the sons of men.
Through
Proverbs 7:4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
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Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.
if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
Voices6
You ask me … why it is that sometimes in my writings I quote examples from secular literature and thus defile the whiteness of the church with the foulness of heathenism. I will now briefly answer your question.… Both in Moses and in the prophets there are passages cited from Gentile books, and … Solomon proposed questions to the philosophers of Tyre and answered others put by them.
Jerome· LETTER 70.2, 420patristic
"To know wisdom and instruction." He who knows the wisdom of God, receives from Him also instruction, and learns by it the mysteries of the Word; and they who know the true heavenly wisdom will easily understand the words of these mysteries. Wherefore he says: "To understand the difficulties of words; " for things spoken in strange language by the Holy Spirit become intelligible to those who have their hearts right with God.
Hippolytus of Rome· Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments, 235patristic
To know wisdom and instruction,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
To know wisdom - That is, this is the design of parabolical writing in general; and the particular aim of the present work. This and the two following verses contain the interpretation of the term parable, and the authors design in the whole book. The first verse is the title, and the next three verses are an explanation of the nature and design of this very important tract.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
To know . . . instruction--literally, "for knowing," that is, such is the design of these writings. wisdom--or the use of the best means for the best ends, is generally employed in this book for true piety. instruction--discipline, by which men are trained. to perceive--literally, "for perceiving," the design (as above) understanding--that is, words which enable one to discern good and evil.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
This book will help us, 1. To form right notions of things, and to possess our minds with clear and distinct ideas of them, that we may know wisdom and instruction, that wisdom which is got by instruction, by divine revelation, may know both how to speak and act wisely ourselves and to give instruction to others.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
The verses this one reaches12
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
Listen to instruction and be wise; do not ignore it.
See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”
From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?
Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.
Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’
How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.
But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.
