Proverbs 9:11
For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
BSB
ASV
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, And the years of thy life shall be increased.
KJV
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
For by me thy days shall be multiplied,.... These are the words of Wisdom, and contain a reason and argument why her call and advice in the preceding verses should be listened unto, since she gives long life to her followers. She is a tree of life unto them, the author and giver of spiritual and eternal life; by means of her bread and her wine spiritual life is maintained, promoted, and preserved; and length of days, for ever and ever, is the gift of her right hand; see Pro 3:
For by me thy days shall be multiplied - Vice shortens human life, by a necessity of consequence: and by the same, righteousness lengthens it. There is a long addition here in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate: “He who trusts in falsity feeds on the winds; and is like him who chases the fowls of heaven. He forsakes the way of his own vineyard, and errs from the paths of his own inheritance. He enters also into lonely and desert places, and into a land abandoned to thirst; and his hands collect that which yieldeth no fruit.”
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.
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Proverbs 3:2for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
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Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Proverbs 3:16Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
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for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
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sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
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Deuteronomy 6:2so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that…
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Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your…
