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Proverbs 4:7

PROVERBS—NOTE ON Proverbs 4:7 get wisdom. The reader is encouraged to search for wisdom and guard it continually. It is a great treasure (see Proverbs 2:4; Proverbs 3:13; Proverbs 4:20). In Proverbs 1:1, the beginning of wisdom is always the fear of the Lord (see Proverbs 1:1; Proverbs 9:10). The Lord is the giver of true wisdom (Proverbs 2:6).

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See also Proverbs 4:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 4:7. _WISDOM_ IS _THE PRINCIPAL THING_] ראשית חכמה _reshith_ _chochmah_, "wisdom is the principle." It is the _punctum saliens_ in all religion to know the true God, and _what_ he requ...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17;...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Solomon's training (Proverbs 4:1)_ 2. Hear, O my son: Receive my sayings (Proverbs 4:10) 3. My son, attend to my words. (Proverbs 4:20)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WISDOM... WISDOM. Hebrew in four words, "Beginning wisdom get wisdom". as the principal thing, get wisdom....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Wisdom_is &c. So also R.V. text. Others, with R.V. marg., _The beginning of wisdom_is, _Get wisdom_, Comp. Proverbs 2:1-5. _with all thy getting_ Rather, WITH ALL THOU HAST GOTTEN, R.V., at the price...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Seventh Address. Chap. Proverbs 4:1-9 Resuming, after the parenthesis (Proverbs 3:27-35) the style and tone of fatherly address of the preceding sections, the Teacher commends Wisdom to his scholars...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 762 THE NATURE AND EXCELLENCE OF TRUE WISDOM Proverbs 4:7. _Wisdom is the principal thing: therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding_. THE inspired volume is no les...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WISDOM IS THE PRINCIPAL THING— "As there is no thing comparable to wisdom; so the first step to it is, to know as much, and to prize it accordingly. Begin therefore to be wise, by looking upon the fea...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER 4 TEXT Proverbs 4:1-9 1. Hear my sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding: 2. For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law. 3. For I was a son unto my...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. WISDOM IS THE PRINCIPAL THING; (THEREFORE) GET WISDOM: AND WITH ALL THY GETTING GET UNDERSTANDING. T...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:7 wisdom; (g-7) Or, 'Wisdom is the principal thing. get wisdom.' 'Beginning' is as Genesis 1:1 ; Psalms 111:10 ; Proverbs 1:7 . see Note b,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Lit. 'The beginning of wisdom is, get wisdom' (RM). When we feel our deficiency we shall make a start. Socrates was the wisest of the Greeks because he felt that he was not wise. AND WITH ALL, etc.] R...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ANCESTRAL WISDOM. THE TWO PATHS In Proverbs 4:1 the teacher lays stress on the fact that his instruction is a repetition of his father's. No teaching was thought valuable save that which was handed do...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    This poem is not just about Solomon’s family. It is about all families. It tells us that a father should teach his son. When he grows older, the son should teach his own children. Solomon’s family wa...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 4 V1 My sons, listen to your father’s instruction. As you listen to me, you will understand more....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Wisdom is better than everything else. It is better than money. It is better than beauty. It is better than health. Wisdom is worth more than everything that you own. Remember that these words come fr...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WISDOM IS THE PRINCIPAL THING... — This may also be translated, _The beginning of wisdom is Get_ (or, _to get,_ comp. Proverbs 16:16) _wisdom: and with_ (_i.e.,_ at the price of) _all thou hast gotten...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    רֵאשִׁ֣ית חָ֭כְמָה קְנֵ֣ה חָכְמָ֑ה וּ בְ כָל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 5 EDUCATION: THE CHILD'S THOUGHT OF THE PARENT "Wisdom doth live with children round her knees." - Wordsworth. "He taught me, and said unto me," etc. Proverbs 4:4 THIS chapter begins with a...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE COUNSELS OF EXPERIENCE. Proverbs 3:27-35; Proverbs 4:1-9 Here are many duties! _Be generous!_ Of course we must discriminate- _to whom it is due;_ and we must be prudent- _when it is in the powe...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this chapter there are three addresses. The first is of the nature of personal testimony (verses Pro 4:1-9). The next two are exhortations to fidelity (verses Pro 4:10-27). The father urges his own...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (c) Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. (c) He shows that we must first begin with God's word, if we will that other things prosper wi...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Beginning. The first part of wisdom is to desire it. For nothing hindereth from being just, but that justice is not desired. (St. Augustine, in Psalm cxviii. 20.) (Worthington) --- "Wisdom is the pri...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom, get unde...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE PRINCIPAL THING_ ‘Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.’ Proverbs 4:7 I. THERE MUST BE REALITY IN OUR KNOWLEDGE.—It must be the real...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WISDOM [IS] THE PRINCIPAL THING,.... Or principal, one; the principal of persons and things; the principal of persons, angels or men: Christ is superior to angels, having a more excellent name and nat...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Ver. 7. _Wisdom is the principal thing._] Say the world what it will, a drachma of this wisdom is...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He taught me also, and said unto me_ The following verses, at least as far as the tenth, are represented as containing the words of David, Solomon's father, that the name of so great a king, and so h...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Wisdom is the principal thing, the highest and most desirable possession; THEREFORE GET WISDOM, this being suggested as the guiding rule of life; AND WITH ALL THY GETTING, at the price of all one's po...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ADMONITIONS CONCERNING WISDOM...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-13 We must look upon our teachers as our fathers: though instruction carry in it reproof and correction, bid it welcome. Solomon's parents loved him, therefore taught him. Wise and godly men, in ev...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE PRINCIPAL THING; the most excellent of all possessions. WITH ALL; even with the price of all, though it cost thee the loss of all which thou hast. Or, _or among all_. Whilst you labour for other t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom H2451 principal H7225 get H7069 (H8798) wisdom H2451 getting H7075 understanding H998 Wisdom is -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCE OF WHAT HIS FATHER HAD TAUGHT HIM AS ‘A SON' (PROVERBS 4:3). Solomon now stresses that his wisdom has partly come down to him from his father. This greatly added to it...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Proverbs 4:7 I. There must be reality in our knowledge. It must be the real knowledge of real things. We must be sure that we, in the first instance, take it in as accurately as possible. We must not...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Earnest exhortation to the study of true wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: True wisdom from God is the principle thing. It is that which recommends us to God, which be...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 4:1. _Hear, ye children,_ a Hebraism, equivalent to wash, cleanse, and purify your ears. A grateful son here recites the domestic piety of an illustrious father. David talked much with his ch...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Wisdom is the principal thing._ THE PRINCIPAL THING I. If we consider man’s spiritual state in the sight of God. II. If we consider man’s present happiness. The true happiness of man has its founda...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 4:8. EXALT or “esteem.” PROVERBS 4:9. Last clause, or “she shall compass thee with a crown of glory.” PROVERBS 4:10. As is all other instances (see Notes on Chap....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 4:1 7. _Seventh admonitory discourse. _We here enter upon the second group of admonitory discourses, as is indicated by the opening address, "my children," and which occurs again...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Continuing to his son. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you might know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, don't forsake my law. For I was my father's son, ten...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ecclesiastes 2:4; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 7:12; Ecclesiastes 9:16;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    SACRED EXHORTATIONS Proverbs 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is well, now and then, to step aside and consider what God has to say to young men and women; as well as to consider what He says to their fath...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    With all — Even with the price of all....

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