Proverbs 4:7

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. The world's maxim, on the contrary, is,-Money is the principal thing; therefore get money: and with all thy getting get more. ('Quaerenda pecunia primum est, Virtus post Nummos,' Juvenal.) Contrast the wise man's admonition (). The will and heart must be inclined by the Holy Spirit to it; otherwise precepts are vain (). 'You begin to be wise when you begin to love and seek wisdom: as Seneca says, It is a great part of goodness to wish to be good'-provided you do not content yourself with idle wishes (Cornelius a Lapide). "With all thy getting get understanding" - i:e., amidst all thy a...

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 every age of the world, and rank in society, agree that true wisdom consists in obedience, and is united to happiness. Get wisdom, take pains for it. Get the rule over thy corruptions; take more pains to get this than the wealth of this world. An interest in Christ's salvation is necessary. This wisdom is the one thing needful. A soul without true wisdom and grace is a dead soul. How poor, contemptible, and wretched are those, who, with all their wealth and power, die without getting understanding, without Christ, without hope, and without God! Let us give heed to the sayings of Him who has the words of eternal life. Thus our path will be plain before us: by taking, and keeping fast hold of ins...

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 requires of man, and _for what_ he has made man; and to this must be added, under the Christian dispensation, _to know Jesus Christ whom he hath sent_, and for _what end_ HE was _sent_, the _necessity_ of his being _sent,_ and the _nature_ of that _salvation_ which he has _bought by his own_ _blood_. _GET WISDOM_] Consider this as thy _chief gain_; that in reference to which all _thy_ wisdom, knowledge, and endeavours should be directed. _AND WITH ALL THY GETTING_] Let this be thy _chief property_. While thou art passing through things t

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; Psalms 15:1; Psalms 24:1; Psalms 37. Proverbs 4:7 Or, “The beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.” To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain....

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 in Proverbs 5:7 and Proverbs 7:24. This group extends to the end of Proverbs 7:1. Its prevailing tone is that of warning rather than of positive exhortations, which have been the rule hitherto. The general aim of the discourse before us, as of those preceding, is to exalt Wisdom, to exhibit her as a subject worthy of all earnest endeavour and sacrifice, but it is noticeable that the teacher introd

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 nature than they; he is the God, the Creator, and head of them, and is above them in the human nature; he is superior to men, to the greatest of men, he is King of kings and Lord of lords, and to the best of men the saints. Are they kings? he is their King: are they priests? he is the great High Priest: are any of them prophets, teachers, shepherds? he is the great Prophet in Israel; a Teacher, that never any taught or spoke like him; the chief Shepherd and Bishop of souls: is the church a family? he is the Master of it: is it a body? he is the Head: is it a building? he is the Foundation and Corner Stone; yea, the chief Master Builder. He is the beginning and chief of all God's ways, and the c...

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) Proverbs 4:1. This passage shows the early training which Solomon received and he passeth on the instructions. It is said that these verses formed a model for many Puritan homes in England and the Scotland of the covenant. He was the beloved one, his father's true son. Note the different exhortation, about wisdom: Forget it not; forsake her not; love her; exalt her. Then the promises: She shall preserve thee; she shall keep thee; she shall promote thee

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

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 as his children, by the example of his own early education. Mr Horton happily remarks, "This chapter begins with a charming little piece of autobiography," and quotes Wordsworth's words, "Wisdom doth live with children round her knees....

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 less useful in rectifying the prejudices of education, than it is in restraining the indulgence of forbidden appetites. As far as relates to the grosser violations of moral duty, the advice of parents and teachers is in unison with the Holy Scriptures; but we are very rarely exhorted to follow that which is the main end and purpose of life. Get wealth, get honour, are the lessons inculcated on all the rising generation. David however sets us a better example: he earnestly entreated his son above all things to cultivate true religion. And Solomon, having reaped much advantage from those instructions, has left them on record for our benefit [Note: ver. 3–7.]. We shall endeavour,...